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Getsemani

Girl · het-seh-mah-NEE · Aramaic

Getsemani is a girls' name of Aramaic origin, meaning “oil press”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Getsemani mean?

Aramaic: Spanish form of Gethsemane

“oil press”

Gethsemane is the garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed before his arrest.

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het-seh-mah-NEE

Is Getsemani a girl's or a boy's name?

Getsemani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Getsemani in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,553among girls
Babies in 2025
22about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 8% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Getsemani, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2004, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.

2025 had more girls named Getsemani than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Getsemani in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1992Busiest: 40 in 20042025
Getsemani in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202414#7,590
202320#5,955
202215#7,276
202114#7,625
202018#6,321
201916#7,021
201827#4,886
201711#9,337
201622#5,794
201529#4,724
201423#5,623
201321#6,014
201227#5,112
201125#5,356
201036#4,106
200929#4,930
200828#5,140
200724#5,706
200631#4,575
200533#4,191
200440#3,627
200326#4,799
200220#5,669
200114#7,311
200013#7,574
199914#6,830
19986#12,420
19975#13,719
19967#10,562
19950–
19940–
19930–
19925#13,308

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