Géma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Géma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema.
- ESSpain1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
36,343 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gema in ES Spain, US United States, EC Ecuador and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Géma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #152 | 36,343 | 1 in 1.4K | 36K | Gema | 197 |
| EC Ecuador | #475 | 11,291 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Gema | 35 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Gema | 10 |
| US United States | — | 3,972 | 1 in 84K | 4K | Gema | 235 |
| NI Nicaragua | #191 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Gema | 27 |
| CL Chile | #563 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 13 | Gema | 53 |
36,343 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Géma mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Géma a male or female name?
- Géma 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.
- In which country does Géma have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Géma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gema.
- Where is Géma most common?
- Géma is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Géma?
- In Spain, the national register counted 36,343 people named Géma, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Géma compared with other names?
- In Spain, Géma is the 152nd most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A9maThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Géma” — the 152nd most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.