How Many People Are Named Jemma?
people named Jemma are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 43,220 people in the US has this name
Based on 8,002 babies named Jemma in Social Security records from 1915 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
594 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of GEMMA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Jemma in English. Counting Jemma and these spellings together, about 33,049 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Jemma in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Jemma alive today is about 10 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 13 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Jemma first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 2018, to 594 babies. In 2025, 313 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Jemma has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #528, in 2018. In 2025 it ranked #866.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #866 |
| Best rank | #528 (2018) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #643 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Jemma alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jemma were born in California than in any other state: about 759 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jemma was given 2.4 times as often in Iowa, 2.2 times in Idaho and 1.8 times in Nebraska.
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