Jemma — #758 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jemma

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,685 babies named Jemma between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jemma currently holds the #758 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 594 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jemma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,459 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jemma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 729 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jemma in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jemma 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 7,685 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.