Jemma
#862 for girls in 2025, 313 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 594 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,002since 1915
Jemma over time
Rank among girls' names. Jemma has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #862 | 313 |
| 2024 | #756 | 372 |
| 2023 | #720 | 390 |
| 2022 | #697 | 423 |
| 2021 | #603 | 496 |
| 2020 | #583 | 500 |
| 2019 | #565 | 541 |
| 2018 | #527 | 594 |
| 2017 | #609 | 497 |
| 2016 | #612 | 490 |
| 2015 | #689 | 413 |
| 2014 | #636 | 451 |
| 2013 | #663 | 431 |
| 2012 | #688 | 409 |
| 2011 | #829 | 319 |
| 2010 | #851 | 315 |
| 2009 | #1,163 | 216 |
| 2008 | #2,441 | 78 |
| 2007 | #3,531 | 46 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 |
| 2005 | #2,670 | 63 |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jemma! It came in at #3,795, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jemma is popular in 1915
No state had 5 or more girls named Jemma in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jemma
- 106 spots since 2024 (#756 → #862)
- 279 spots since 2020 (#583 → #862)
- 173 spots since 2015 (#689 → #862)
- Biggest jump: 312 spots in 2010 (#1,163 → #851)
- Biggest drop: 106 spots in 2025 (#756 → #862)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2018 at #527 (594 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,864 girls born in 2018 were named Jemma (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,135 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 55.7% of all girls named Jemma (4,460) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #3,344 (1917) | #3,746 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 8 | #3,883 (1948) | #3,883 |
| 1950s | 10 | #5,414 (1951) | #5,621 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 61 | #5,136 (1971) | #7,596 |
| 1980s | 115 | #4,020 (1989) | #6,709 |
| 1990s | 197 | #3,497 (1998) | #5,353 |
| 2000s | 625 | #1,163 (2009) | #3,252 |
| 2010s | 4,460 | #527 (2018) | #667 |
| 2020s | 2,494 | #583 (2020) | #704 |
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.
Jemma in 1915
Top girls' names in 1915
More about 1915
girls
983,852 girls got a published name in 1915; 1 in 163,975 of them was named Jemma, which outranked 23.6% of the 4,967 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,434Zeta7
- #3,434Zoila7
- #3,434Zuma7
- #3,795Jemma6
- #3,795Alberteen6
- #3,795Aldie6
- #3,795Aleine6
- #4,274Aagot5
- #4,274Achsah5
- #4,274Adabelle5
Tied with 478 names at #3,795; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.