Gemma

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Gemma is ranked 203rd among girls in 2024 (1,514 births). Its best rank was 177th, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #203down 26 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,5140.09% of girls
Peak year: 20231,653 births
Best rank: #177in 2023
Since 1904: 24,227people given the name

Babies named Gemma, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

24,227 girls have been named Gemma in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 1,653 births — 0.10% of all girls recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 47%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Gemma
1900s	36
1910s	190
1920s	213
1930s	138
1940s	198
1950s	313
1960s	300
1970s	275
1980s	432
1990s	830
2000s	2,223
2010s	11,463
2020s	7,616

In 2023, its biggest year

Gemma was the 177th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2023 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Gemma

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Gema2,823 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.