Gema
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gema is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as yolk (yellow part of an egg).
- 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
yolk (yellow part of an egg)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gema is read(measured from records)
Gema is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish76%
Variante gráfica de Gemma.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gema in English.
- Portuguese5.3%
yolk (yellow part of an egg)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gema 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gema is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Piedra preciosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Russian, "twin, Gemini."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Albanian, indefinite nominative/accusative plural of gem
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of xema
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gemma Galganib. 1878ITnot in their usual nameItalian saint (1878-1903)
- Gema Jurkūnaitėb. 1945LTLithuanian politician
- Gema Climentb. 1971ESSpanish tech entrepreneur (b. 1971)
- Gema Lópezb. 1971ESSpanish journalist and television presenter
- Gema Igual Ortizb. 1973ESSpanish politician
- Gema Zamprognab. 1976CACanadian actress
- Gema Pascualb. 1979ESSpanish cyclist
- Gema R. Neirab. 1982ESSpanish screenwriter
- Gema Simonb. 1990AUAustralian soccer player (born 1990)
- Gema Gilib. 1994ESValencian Footballer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 55 | #41,581 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 55 | #41,513 |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gema mean, and where does it come from?
- yolk (yellow part of an egg) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gema a male or female name?
- Gema 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 are other forms of the name Gema?
- In the etymology graph, Gemma, Jemma and Berilo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gema have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Gema, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gema.
- Where is Gema most common?
- Gema is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gema?
- In Spain, the national register counted 36,343 people named Gema, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Gema compared with other names?
- In Spain, Gema is the 152nd most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gema?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gemaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gema” — the 152nd most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.