Gema Girl
How popular is Gema?
#1,990 girl name in 2025
96 baby girls were named Gema in the US in 2025, making it the 1990th most popular girl name.
Gema popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,990 for girls (▼ 258 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 96 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+26% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,408 in 2015, #2,196 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (125 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,578 in 1999 |
| First recorded | 1959 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Gema counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Gemma family of names ranked #180 for girls in 2025 (#207 the year before), with 1,901 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma | 1,805 | 95% |
| Gema | 96 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Gema is most popular
Babies named Gema per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (116 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (106 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Colorado: 0.1 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Arizona: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
Gema by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12 | #3,618 |
| 1960s | 61 | #3,951 |
| 1970s | 101 | #4,299 |
| 1980s | 184 | #2,873 |
| 1990s | 612 | #1,578 |
| 2000s | 681 | #1,991 |
| 2010s | 637 | #2,268 |
| 2020s | 631 | #1,677 |
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Questions
- Is Gema a boy or girl name?
- Gema is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Gema were girls.
- How popular is the name Gema?
- 96 baby girls were named Gema in the US in 2025, making it the 1990th most popular girl name.
- When was Gema most popular?
- Gema peaked in 2022, when 125 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,578 in 1999.
- How many people are named Gema?
- 2,919 babies have been named Gema in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,880 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 19.
- Where is Gema most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Gema was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.