Meaning not yet researched.
Jemma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 313 in 2025. Its best rank was #528 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #528 in 2018; #866 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jemma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#866 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #528.
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Jemma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 313 girls in 2025. Peak: #528 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 594 (2018).
In 2025, 313 US girls were named Jemma, making it the 866th most common girls’ name of the year, down 109 places from #757 in 2024. That is 59 fewer than the 372 girls named Jemma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #528, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 594. For comparison, it was #689 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jemma in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 8,002 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,460 babies named Jemma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,616 US girls were named Jemma; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 594. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,135 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jemma ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #378 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gemma (26,042 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jema, Jimma and Jemmah are summarised on this page.
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jema (415), Jimma (157), Jemmah (48), Jima (6), Jemaya (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jemma 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 6 | #378 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #456 | #581 |
| Oregon | 7 | #518 | #493 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #520 | #466 |
| Kansas | 6 | #538 | #677 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #574 | #534 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #589 | #646 |
| Indiana | 10 | #626 | #646 |
| Utah | 6 | #653 | #527 |
| Michigan | 10 | #756 | #565 |
| Washington | 8 | #768 | #396 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #781 | #809 |
| Texas | 37 | #811 | #884 |
| California | 35 | #846 | #821 |
| Florida | 18 | #892 | #635 |
| New York | 17 | #921 | #795 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #963 | #649 |
| Arizona | 6 | #965 | #1,179 |
| Colorado | 5 | #978 | #726 |
| Ohio | 9 | #989 | #861 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,039 | #708 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,063 | #886 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,085 | #819 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,132 | #847 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,265 | #881 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 313 | #866 | — | — |
| 2024 | 372 | #757 | — | — |
| 2023 | 390 | #722 | — | — |
| 2022 | 423 | #697 | — | — |
| 2021 | 496 | #604 | — | — |
| 2020 | 500 | #584 | — | — |
| 2019 | 541 | #565 | — | — |
| 2018 | 594 | #528 | — | — |
| 2017 | 497 | #609 | — | — |
| 2016 | 490 | #612 | — | — |
| 2015 | 413 | #689 | — | — |
| 2014 | 451 | #636 | — | — |
| 2013 | 431 | #663 | — | — |
| 2012 | 409 | #688 | — | — |
| 2011 | 319 | #829 | — | — |
| 2010 | 315 | #852 | — | — |
| 2009 | 216 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,465 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,520 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,661 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,125 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,405 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,840 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,142 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,057 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,729 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,563 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,197 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,667 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,389 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,597 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,063 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,507 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,934 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,390 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,888 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,873 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,750 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,292 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,801 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,264 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,611 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,766 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,028 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,548 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,718 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,004 | — | — |
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).