Gema
The name carries the sense "precious stone", and reaches Polish through Spanish. Only about 25 women in Poland hold it, and no girls have been given it in recent record, so most Poles have never met a Gema.
Gema Pronunciation
Gema is pronounced GE-mah (/ˈgɛma/).
What Gema means
Where Gema comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gema is the Spanish word for a gem, worn now as a given name. It descends from Latin gemma, which named a bud on the vine before it named a cut stone. Roman writers used gemma for both. The two senses, jewel and precious stone, live in those four letters.
The Italian Gemma is its close cousin, and English gem grows from the same root. Botanists still call a leaf bud a gemma. So a name for treasure shares an ancestor with a word for new growth.
In a Polish class register, Gema sits among the Zuzannas and Julias. The teacher reads it once. On the page it stays Spanish, and its meaning stays plain: precious stone, jewel.
How many people are named Gema
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Gema. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8526 among female names.
Gema as a middle name
Gema is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3606th, between Fátima (5) and Geneviéve (5).
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#3604 Fulya5
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#3605 Fátima5
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#3606 Gema5
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#3607 Geneviéve5
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#3608 Ghislaine5