Gema
Gema was given to 96 girls in 2025, #1,996 among girls’ names; 2,919 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Gema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gema mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Gema is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “gem” (gemma).
Borrowed from Italian Gemma, from Latin gemma (“gem”).
/ˈxema/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gema?
#1,996 among girls’ names, 2025
Gema rose from #2,419 in 2015 to #1,996 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 42.6 to 59.7 per million.
125 babies in 2022, the peak
Gema peaked in 2022, when 125 girls were given it, #1,677 among girls’ names. The 96 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,996 | 59.7 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,738 | 72.2 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,693 | 76.0 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,677 | 76.2 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,122 | 54.2 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,202 | 50.7 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,899 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,760 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,273 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,029 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,419 | 42.6 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,820 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,018 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,663 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,922 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,790 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,833 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,728 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,763 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,995 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,764 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,232 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,068 | 47.1 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,034 | 47.3 |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,997 | 47.2 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,343 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,581 | 59.8 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,803 | 48.7 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,990 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,982 | 40.5 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,686 | 49.5 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,632 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,542 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,878 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,703 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,815 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,884 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,732 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,892 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,794 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,894 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,445 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,238 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,058 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,805 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,202 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,525 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,015 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,510 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,208 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,703 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,814 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,887 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,371 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,833 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,850 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,819 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,493 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,656 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,903 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,029 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,101 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,005 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,652 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,686 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gema, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,919 Americans ever recorded as Gema. The median Gema alive today is 19 years old; half are between 8 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,972 people named Gema (3,963 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 147 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 533 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gema born?
The states with the most babies named Gema are Texas, California and Florida, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,485 | 1.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,684 | 2.7× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,273 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 5 | #959 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,098 | 0.1× |
Where Gema is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gema is most over-represented in California: since 1959 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gema with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 28,961 babies since 1880, Gema is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 1,901 babies (5.0%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gema
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gema and names like it
- Compare Gema and GemmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGema peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gema since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Gema: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Gema.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gema alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.