Gemma
20
Babies in 2024
-47%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.26k
+43%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Gemma
Gemma is a vintage UK girl's name with most of its registrations in the late 1990s. It peaked in 1996 with 1,261 girls registered in England & Wales, and has been quieter since.
Gemma reached its peak in 1996, when 1,261 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #50 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 2% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,350 girls have been officially registered with the name Gemma in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 243 girls were registered with the name, starting from 38 in 2014 and ending at 20 in 2024.