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Hema

#15,762 in 2025Girls' name

Gold

Hema has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #15,762 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Hema, 2025

1 in 663,000

Hema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hema: meaning, origin, and history

Gold

Sanskrit

What Hema means

Hema means “gold”, associated with hemā.

Origin, language, and formation

Hema is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Hema comes through Sanskrit हेमा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 girls were recorded with the name Hema between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2007; its best national rank was #7,570 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hema?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,762
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hema sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hemas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hema was born before 1997 — so the typical Hema is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
170
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Hema rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,664
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2007 (10)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,570
1976

Spellings of Hema

Hema is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 27.9% against Hema's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hema is used

Across 1910–2025, Hema was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hema around the world

Where Hema ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1976–2018
    #5,169
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1982–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hema by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,762
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,570
1976
Peak year
2007
10 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
170
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Hema

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hema

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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