girls:
7.3k births since 1915
#1907 (67th percentile)
overall:
7.3k births since 1915
#3153 (59th percentile)
The name Jemma is the #3,153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,307 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 59.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,907 (66.6% percentile) for all time with 7,307 births since 1915.
Jemma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Jemma is available in 61 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Jemma reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 51.4% percentile (ranked #468) with 318 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 318 births per million (ranked 51.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jemma ranks #584 for girls (38.4% percentile) with 222 births per million, which is 69.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jemma".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jemma is pronounced as JEH-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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