Jemma Girl
How popular is Jemma?
#862 girl name in 2025
313 baby girls were named Jemma in the US in 2025, making it the 862nd most popular girl name.
Jemma popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #862 for girls (▼ 106 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 313 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-24% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #689 in 2015, #583 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (594 girls) |
| Highest rank | #527 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1915 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jemma counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jemma family of names ranked #762 for girls in 2025 (#709 the year before), with 335 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jemma | 313 | 93% |
| Jema | 15 | 4% |
| Jemmah | 7 | 2% |
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 Jemma is most popular
Babies named Jemma per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Jemma by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #3,342 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,548 |
| 1940s | 8 | #3,881 |
| 1950s | 10 | #5,413 |
| 1970s | 61 | #5,134 |
| 1980s | 115 | #4,014 |
| 1990s | 197 | #3,494 |
| 2000s | 625 | #1,163 |
| 2010s | 4,460 | #527 |
| 2020s | 2,494 | #583 |
Girl names about as popular as Jemma
Questions
- Is Jemma a boy or girl name?
- Jemma is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jemma were girls.
- How popular is the name Jemma?
- 313 baby girls were named Jemma in the US in 2025, making it the 862nd most popular girl name.
- When was Jemma most popular?
- Jemma peaked in 2018, when 594 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #527 in 2018.
- How many people are named Jemma?
- 8,002 babies have been named Jemma in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,920 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Jemma most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jemma was most common in Idaho, at 0.7 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.