Gema
- #1,990 for girls in 2025, 96 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,919since 1959
Gema over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Gema has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,990 | 96 |
| 2024 | #1,732 | 117 |
| 2023 | #1,692 | 122 |
| 2022 | #1,677 | 125 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 |
| 2020 | #2,196 | 82 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 |
| 2018 | #2,744 | 62 |
| 2017 | #2,268 | 82 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 |
| 2007 | #2,750 | 66 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2005 | #2,756 | 60 |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 |
| 2002 | #2,028 | 85 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 |
| 1999 | #1,580 | 106 |
| 1998 | #1,801 | 86 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 |
| 1996 | #1,980 | 71 |
| 1995 | #1,684 | 87 |
| 1994 | #2,627 | 47 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 |
| 1991 | #2,703 | 44 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 |
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| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five girls were named Gema! It came in at #3,619, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Gema is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- Colorado#907 · 1 in 4,665
- Indiana#1,032 · 1 in 5,582
- Florida#1,243 · 1 in 7,887
- Texas#1,460 · 1 in 10,034
- California#1,651 · 1 in 12,440
Best ever in a state: #656 in Arizona, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #907 | 5 | 1 in 4,665 |
| Indiana | #1,032 | 5 | 1 in 5,582 |
| Florida | #1,243 | 11 | 1 in 7,887 |
| Texas | #1,460 | 16 | 1 in 10,034 |
| California | #1,651 | 13 | 1 in 12,440 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 258 spots since 2024 (#1,732 → #1,990)
- 206 spots since 2020 (#2,196 → #1,990)
Rise & fade · girls
40 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1999 at #1,580 (106 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,121
- Highest: 1 in 13,121 girls born in 2022 were named Gema (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,742 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,580 in 1999, was only 1 in 16,734 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 23.3% of all girls named Gema (681) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 12 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,619 |
| 1960s | 61 | #3,952 (1965) | #5,390 |
| 1970s | 101 | #4,300 (1972) | #5,630 |
| 1980s | 184 | #2,879 (1989) | #4,809 |
| 1990s | 612 | #1,580 (1999) | #2,355 |
| 2000s | 681 | #1,995 (2001) | #2,567 |
| 2010s | 637 | #2,268 (2017) | #2,748 |
| 2020s | 631 | #1,677 (2022) | #1,901 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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