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Hemma

#12,380 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Hemma has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #12,380 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hemma, 2025

1 in 474,000

Hemma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hemma: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hemma means

Hemma is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hemma is used in Old Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Hemma is pronounced /ˈɣɛmma/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Hemma between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2025; its best national rank was #12,380 in 2025.

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 Hemma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,380
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hemma 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hemma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hemmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hemma was born before 2011 — so the typical Hemma is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Hemma 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (7)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,380
2025

Spellings of Hemma

Hemma is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 59.2% against Hemma'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.

Hemma around the world

Where Hemma 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
    1997–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1988–2020
    #4,932
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hemma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,380
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,380
2025
Peak year
2025
7 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Hemma

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

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Sibling names for Hemma

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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