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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Jem

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#15,941

down −1,712 places

2025 births

5

down −1 births

All-time births

107

5% of them in 2025

More common than

63%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1987
11 births
Best rank
#6,496
in 1987
First recorded
1986
#11,648 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2005
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
17 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198711#6,496Peak
  2. 19889#7,967
  3. 19908#9,621
  4. 20037#13,023
  5. 20157#13,631

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #6,496 in 1987 · peak births 11 in 1987

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 37% boys■ 63% girls

64 boys · 107 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Jem has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.