Jemma is the English variant of Gemma, a medieval Italian nickname meaning ‘gem, precious stone’. Gemma is also quite popular in Australia and New Zealand.
Jemma is a female first name.
The name Jemma isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Jemma ranks 581. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Jemma. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jemma.
Jemma is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Jemma cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #487 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2018. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Jemma, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Jemma seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jemma was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
417 babies were named Jemma in 2022 - that's 1 in 355,472 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Jemma ranked 635 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Jemma is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jemma and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jemma, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Mouse
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jemma
Jemma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
M
M
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
M
M
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jemma sounds like this:
