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Jemma

#866 in 2025Girls' name

Jewel, through Gemma

Jemma has been given to 8,002 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #866 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 594 recorded.

Babies named Jemma, 2025

1 in 10,600

Jemma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jemma: meaning, origin, and history

Jewel, through Gemma

Italian

What Jemma means

Jemma belongs to the name family reached through Jemma → Gemma. Its meaning is “jewel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jemma is used in English. Its origins include Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gemma and James.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,002 girls were recorded with the name Jemma between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 594 in 2018; its best national rank was #528 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #584 in 2020 to #866 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #689 in 2015 to #866 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 Jemma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,600
313 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,130
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#866
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,343 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jemma 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,343 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jemmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemma was born before 2017 — so the typical Jemma is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,962
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (4,460).

Is Jemma 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
−109
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−282
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−177
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.7%
Peak was 2018 (594)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#528
2018

Spellings of Jemma

Jemma is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 61.1% against Jemma's 0.63%.

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 Jemma is used

Across 2016–2025, Jemma was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 1,266 girls, against 1 in 3,163 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 11,111).

979 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 1,266
  2. 2Iowa1 in 1,370
  3. 3Utah1 in 1,724
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 1,818
  5. 5South Dakota1 in 1,818
  6. 6Oregon1 in 1,923
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,961
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 1,961

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.

Geographically, Jemma is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 31% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Jemma around the world

Where Jemma 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2011
    #444
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    1965–2016
    #661
    in 2016
  • France
    1925–2024
    #5,399
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #164
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2001–2003
    #87
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jemma

People whose public names include Jemma, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jemma in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jemma. Linked forms have their own page here.

JemGemma

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jemma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#866
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 282
Best rank ever
#528
2018
Peak year
2018
594 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,002
Count in 2025
313

Names similar to Jemma

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

JemimaGemmaJemaJemimahJemiahAmmaJemiaJimmaJemyaJemJemmahLemmaJemilaTammaJeminaJemmieJeminiEmmaJemekaTommaHemmaKemmaClemmaSemma

Names with a curve like Jemma

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jemma, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KensleyCharleighElliotCoralineSloanLivLylahBraelynnScarletteMilanaAubrielleEmmeline

Sibling names for Jemma

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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