Meaning not yet researched.
Gema: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,583 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,583 in 1999; #1,996 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gema in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,996 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,583.
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Gema: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,583 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 125 (2022).
In 2025, 96 US girls were named Gema, making it the 1,996th most common girls’ name of the year, down 258 places from #1,738 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 117 girls named Gema in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,583, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 125, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,419 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gema in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 12 babies. In all, 2,919 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 681 babies named Gema.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 887 US girls were named Gema; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 125. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,742 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gema ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #959 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jewel (46,728 babies since 1880), Gemma (26,042 babies since 1880), Ema (4,857 babies since 1880) and Nakita (3,018 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Lithuanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Gema in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 5 | #959 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,098 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,273 | #2,193 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,485 | #1,430 |
| California | 13 | #1,684 | #1,456 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 2015 | 76 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,923 | — | — |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,895 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,895 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,449 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,060 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,806 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,203 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,526 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,015 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,512 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,210 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,705 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,815 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,889 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,835 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,820 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,495 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,657 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,030 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,102 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,006 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,687 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).