Jem

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jem: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jem: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #764 in 2019, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#764highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2005

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3382

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2019: #764 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2266 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1337 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2019–2025
Highest recorded position: #764 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 2019–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Jem appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 405 births with the name.

Jem across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jem's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1337 (1996)	#841 (2004)	#2088 (2024)	29 of 29	405 (1996–2024)	26 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#764 (2019)	#764 (2019)	#829 (2025)	2 of 7	6 (2019–2025)	3 (2019)

Jem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jem in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	50	4 of 10	13
2000sbusiest	199	10 of 10	20
2010s	113	10 of 10	11
2020s	43	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jem appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #764 in Republic of Ireland in 2019.

Jem's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1171	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1218	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#987	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1048	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#841	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#945	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1033	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#953	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1337	9	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #764, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jelani · #1664, 25y
Jelena · #183, 53y
Jemima · #157, 30y
Jemimah · #664, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eliezer · #764, 29y
Rawan · #764, 29y
Rida · #764, 29y
Samy · #764, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anna-Leigh · #764, 15y
Bryanna · #764, 22y
Clarisse · #764, 19y
Eliezer · #764, 29y

Jem was ranked #764 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jem and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jem without appearing here.

Jem moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #4270.
Keith Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #2325 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #3688.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1456 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1048 and #2538.

Moved ahead of Jem

Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #1461.
Theodor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1251 and #1522 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1962 and #1086.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #2018.
Marius Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1251 and #1600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1962 and #1270.

Moved the opposite way to Jem

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Jem

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jem went from #1337 to #2088 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #764 in Republic of Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jem

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Popularity journey

Jem across 2 official records

Jem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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