girls:
203 births since 1914
#5513 (4th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2022
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
208 births since 1914
#7531 (3rd percentile)
The name Gem is the #7,531 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 208 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 2.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,513 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 203 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2022.
Gem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Gem is available in 27 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (27 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gem has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gem reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #948) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gem ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 63.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gem reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #924) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gem".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gem is pronounced as jehm, which has 1 syllables.
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