Gaia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Gaia

By the numbers

Total US births

2,434

Estimated living today

2,400

Median age today

6

Peak year

2023

Best rank

1,120th

Rank in 2025

1,388th

First recorded

1980

How old the living Gaias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,434 babies given the name since 1980, about 2,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γαῖᾰ (“Gaea, the Earth personified as a goddess”), from γαῖᾰ (“the Earth”), probably related to γῆ (“earth, land; country”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Gaias

• Gaia Zucchi (born 1970)Italian actress, showgirl and writer
• Gaia Weiss (born 1991)French actress and model
• Gaia Cauchi (born 2002)Maltese singer
• Gaia Bassani Antivari (born 1978)Italian-Azerbaijani alpine skier
• Gaia Giovannini (born 2001)Italian international volleyball player
• Gaia Germani (1934–2019)actress

People named Gaia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Gaia is most common

• CA400
• NY259
• FL172
• TX151
• NJ55
• VA49
• MA44
• GA29
• NC25
• PA25

Relative to how many babies each state records, Gaia is most concentrated in Florida (3.8×), California (3.0×), New York (2.5×), Virginia (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular girls’ names the year Gaia peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Charlotte
• Amelia
• Sophia
• Mia

All the names of 2023

Gaia elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Gaia: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Gaia is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.59% of children were given it – 371 of them.

Gaia: rank by region

In 2021, Gaia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Gaia was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Gaia was given 2 times or more in 7 regions of Poland.

In 2015, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Gaia appears in the lists for Isole (9th).

In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Gaia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (223rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Gaia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Gaia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Gaia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,346 women called Gaia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Gail
• Gaige
• Gaines
• Gaile
• Gaither
• Gaila
• Gaius

Gaia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Gaia vs Gail
• Gaia vs Gaige
• Gaia vs Gaines
• Gaia vs Gaile
• Gaia vs Gaither
• Gaia vs Gaila

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