Gemma — #203 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Gemma

The Social Security Administration has registered 24,227 babies named Gemma between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gemma currently holds the #203 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 1,653 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gemma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11,463 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Gemma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,156 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Gemma in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gemma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 24,227 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.