Jema
Jema was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,279 among girls’ names; 415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jema?
#7,279 among girls’ names, 2025
Jema rose from #7,419 in 2015 to #7,279 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 9.3 per million.
26 babies in 2011, the peak
Jema peaked in 2011, when 26 girls were given it, #5,277 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,279 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,225 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,907 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,798 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,870 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,849 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,505 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,930 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,926 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,062 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,419 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,126 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,575 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,711 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,277 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,047 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,220 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,288 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,555 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,454 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,520 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,581 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,448 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,178 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,763 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,653 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,031 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,449 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,067 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,966 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,064 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,908 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,352 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,919 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,504 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,230 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,549 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jema, and how old are they?
An estimated 410 Americans named Jema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 501 people named Jema (492 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jema?
Jema is a less common spelling of Jemma: SSA has recorded 415 Jema and 8,002 Jemma since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,909 babies since 1880, Jema is the fourth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 415 babies (3.6%), again the fourth 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 Jema
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 Jema and names like it
- Compare Jema and JemmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jema.
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