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Sema

#14,661 in 2025Girls' name

Sky, heaven

Sema has been given to 219 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #14,661 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Sema, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sema: meaning, origin, and history

Sky, heaven

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sema means

Sema means “sky, heaven”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sema is used in Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /se.ˈmaː/ for Sema.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 219 girls were recorded with the name Sema between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,346 in 1932.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,680 in 2015 to #14,661 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 Sema?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,661
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sema 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Semas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sema was born before 2006 — so the typical Sema is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Sema 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
+4,019
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2014 (12)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,346
1932

Spellings of Sema

Sema is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 25.8% against Sema'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 Sema is used

Across 1910–2025, Sema 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. Sema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sema around the world

Where Sema 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1974–2025
    #6,250
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Sema by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,661
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,346
1932
Peak year
2014
12 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
219
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Sema

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

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Sibling names for Sema

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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