Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Hemma isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hemma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 0 boys · 28 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,384 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,384 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hemma’s family of names
In Latin usage, Hemma has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Emma.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hemma
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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