How Many People Are Named Gema?

2,874

people named Gema are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 118,923 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,919 babies named Gema in Social Security records from 1959 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,316

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,979

See the top 100

Peak Year

2022

125 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Spanish form of GEMMA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Gema in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Gema alive today is about 19 years old, and 78% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 28 in 2025.

Under 30 2,233
77.7%
30 to 59 602
20.9%
60 and over 39
1.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Gema first appears in the records in 1959 and was given most often in 2022, to 125 babies. In 2025, 96 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1959 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Gema has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,581, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,996.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,996
Best rank#1,581 (1999)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,536 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Gema alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Gema were born in California than in any other state: about 1,011 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gema was given 4.1 times as often in California, 2.7 times in Texas and 2.4 times in Arizona.

California 1,011
Texas 503
Arizona 85
Florida 51
Illinois 35
Colorado 15
Georgia 14
North Carolina 11
New York 5
Oklahoma 5
Pennsylvania 5
Indiana 5

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