Pema — #9933 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Pema

The Social Security Administration has registered 225 babies named Pema between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pema currently holds the #9933 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Pema is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12 additional births since 2017.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pema performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Pema shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Pema in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pema 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 225 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.