Jemma
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jemma is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Italian, a spelling variant of Gemma; by folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James/Jem.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 977◐
- AUAustralia1 in 1.4K
- ESSpain1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈52K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 330 ●
- 1 in 1.6K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
426K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
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, Jema in IN India, TZ Tanzania, GE Georgia 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●
A female given name from Italian, a spelling variant of Gemma; by folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James/Jem.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #169 | 211,561 | 139K rec. | — | 4 | Gemma | 252 |
| PH Philippines | #244 | 82,872 | 73K rec. | — | — | Gemma | 115 |
| AU Australia | #254 | 82,595 | 57K rec. | — | 90 | Gemma | 226 |
| IN India | — | 35,316 | 33K rec. | — | 878 | Jema | 39 |
| ES Spain | — | 30,784△ | 14K rec. | 1 in 1.6K | 31K | Gemma | 154 |
| US United States | — | 18,991 | 76K rec. | 1 in 18K | 19K | Gemma | 330 |
| CA Canada | — | 6,763 | 2.9K rec. | — | 19 | Gemma | 124 |
| IE Ireland | #244 | 3,859 | 1.6K rec. | — | 13 | Gemma | 100 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,656 | 2.1K rec. | — | 399 | Jemima | 33 |
| MX Mexico | — | 3,087 | 2.5K rec. | — | 67 | Jemima | 56 |
| PE Peru | — | 2,948 | 2K rec. | — | — | Jemima | 32 |
| IT Italy | — | 2,542 | 2.7K rec. | — | 142 | Gemma | 104 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English72K84%
- Spanish3.2K4%
- Hindi1.2K1%
- French1K1%
- 5561%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 71,573 | 84% |
| Spanish | 3,248 | 4% |
| Hindi | 1,229 | 1% |
| French | 1,020 | 1% |
| 556 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jemma 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 English, variant of Gemma; "gem"
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In Finnish, hoard, stash
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ff, night
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1915 | 6 |
| 1916 | 7 |
| 1917 | 8 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 17 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 24 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 31 |
| 1998 | 34 |
| 1999 | 26 |
| 2000 | 27 |
| 2001 | 35 |
| 2002 | 36 |
| 2003 | 37 |
| 2004 | 34 |
| 2005 | 63 |
| 2006 | 53 |
| 2007 | 46 |
| 2008 | 78 |
| 2009 | 216 |
| 2010 | 315 |
| 2011 | 319 |
| 2012 | 409 |
| 2013 | 431 |
| 2014 | 451 |
| 2015 | 413 |
| 2016 | 490 |
| 2017 | 497 |
| 2018 | 594 |
| 2019 | 541 |
| 2020 | 500 |
| 2021 | 496 |
| 2022 | 423 |
| 2023 | 390 |
| 2024 | 372 |
| 2025 | 313 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jemma Churchillb. 1960GBEnglish actress
- Jemma Kiddb. 1974GBEnglish countess by courtesy, make up artist and fashion model
- Jemb. 1975GBnot in their usual nameWelsh singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Jemma Redmondb. 1978IEIrish biotechnology pioneer
- Jemma Powellb. 1980GBBritish actress
- Jemma Dallenderb. 1988GBBritish actress (1988 – )
- Jemma Loweb. 1990GBBritish swimmer
- Jemma McKenzie-Brownb. 1994GBactress, singer, dancer
- Jemma Reekieb. 1998GBScottish middle-distance runner
- Jemma WalkerGBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 49 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 394 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jemma?
- We estimate roughly 52 thousand people bear Jemma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jemma have the most bearers?
- Jemma is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled gemma.
- How common is Jemma compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Jemma is the 169th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- Is Jemma a male or female name?
- Jemma 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 Jemma mean?
- Recorded meaning: A female given name from Italian, a spelling variant of Gemma; by folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James/Jem.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jemma” — the 169th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.