Name: Gemma
Gender: Female
Usage: Gemma, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Gemma are in general originating from Australia, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Gemma is: Jewel, Precious stone.
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Numerology of the first name Gemma: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Gemma is ranked on the 600th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 970200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.014% of the population. The name Gemma has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Gemma for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Gemma is a female name of Italian origin, meaning "gem." Its popularity peaked in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It was the third most popular female name in 1984 in the UK.
Notable people with the name Gemma include:
- Gemma Arterton (born 1986), English actress
- Gemma Atkinson, English actress and model
- Gemma Beadsworth, Australian water polo player
- Gemma Bissix, English actress
- Gemma Bond, American ballet dancer
- Gemma Craven, Irish actress
- Gemma di Manetto Donati, the wife of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri
- Gemma Doyle (politician), British Labour Party politician
- Gemma Frisius (1508–1555), Frisian mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker
- Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), Italian mystic with signs of stigmata, venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint
- Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
- Gemma Jackson (born 1951), British production designer
- Gemma Jones, English actress
- Gemma Sanderson, Australian model and the winner of Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
- Gemma Ward, Australian model
- Gemma Whelan, English actress and comedian
Fictional characters:
- Gemma, in the children's Hospital Radio series The Space Gypsy Adventures
- Gemma Doyle, heroine of Libba Bray's novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing; see List of Gemma Doyle Trilogy characters
- Gemma Warren, heroine of the 1897 novel The Gadfly
- Gemma, in the first series of the Sky One supernatural TV series Hex
- Gemma, an Arduino compatible microcontroller designed by Limor Fried
- Gemma Teller Morrow, in the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy
- Gemma, the Silver Ranger in the television show Power Rangers: RPM
English, Irish, and Italian: from a medieval Italian nickname meaning ‘gem, jewel’. It has been chosen in modern times mainly because of its transparent etymology. Among Roman Catholics it is sometimes chosen in honour of St Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), who was the subject of many extraordinary signs of grace, such as ecstasies and the appearance of the stigmata.
Variant: English: Jemma.
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