Jemimá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jemimá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the name of a minor biblical character, from Hebrew יְמִימָה (“dove”). By folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James.
- BRBrazil1 in 113K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 740as Gemma
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.2Kas Gemma
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jemimá itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Gemma, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gemma in GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, US United States and 3 more, Jemima in BR Brazil, GH Ghana and Jema in TZ Tanzania.
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)
From the name of a minor biblical character, from Hebrew יְמִימָה (“dove”). By folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James.
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Nordic Names
Attested across 38 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jemimá 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #179 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 740 | — | Gemma | 118 |
| GB United Kingdom | #162 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 4 | Gemma | 327 |
| ES Spain | #591 | 30,784as Gemma | 1 in 1.6K | 31K | Gemma | 157 |
| US United States | — | 19,024as Gemma | 1 in 17K | 19K | Gemma | 374 |
| TZ Tanzania | #530 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Jema | 16 |
| AU Australia | #257 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 90 | Gemma | 239 |
| GH Ghana | #247 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Jemima | 41 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,875 | 1 in 113K | 1.9K | Jemima | 70 |
| IE Ireland | #251 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 13 | Gemma | 107 |
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: NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). 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 Jemimá mean, and where does it come from?
- From the name of a minor biblical character, from Hebrew יְמִימָה (“dove”). By folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology) and 3 other sources.
- Is Jemimá a male or female name?
- Jemimá 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 Jemimá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 147 thousand people named Gemma in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jemimá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,875 people named Jemimá in 2022, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
- How common is Jemimá compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jemimá is the 179th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jemim%C3%A1The 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, “Jemimá” — the 179th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.