Jema

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Gemma in GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, AU Australia and 13 more, Jemima in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 7 more and Jama in EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jema is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name975 records spelled Jema2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Morocco, Ethiopia

  Also written Jemâ

• Finnish given name253 records spelled Jema4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Finland, Philippines, Tanzania

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Jemá

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jema is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In pi, first-person plural present/imperative active of jeti (“to conquer”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In mh, father, FB

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Latvian, Maisījums

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 132 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jema?

We estimate roughly 52 thousand people bear Jema (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Jema have the most bearers?

Jema is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled gemma.

How common is Jema compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Jema is the 169th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Jema a male or female name?

Jema is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Jema mean?

Recorded meaning: [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Ji-ma class|ji class_((V))]] inflected form of -ema