Gaia

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gaia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Italy. It appears chiefly in German and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Gaia, the Earth; name of the earth goddess in Greek mythology.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly1 in 672◐
  • USUnited States1 in 233K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.9K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
156 ●

8.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

GaiaLatin · German●74K records
가이아Hangul · Korean●1 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Greek Gaia, the Earth; name of the earth goddess in Greek mythology.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gaia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#11575,2521.7K rec.—1.4KGaia104
FR France—1,665△2 rec.1 in 41K1.7K—3
US United States—1,4264.6K rec.1 in 233K1.4KGaia156
ES Spain—1,346△68 rec.1 in 37K1.3KGaia24
BR Brazil—649△10 rec.1 in 326K649Gaia5
PL Poland—595△2 rec.1 in 64K595—1
DK Denmark—5530 rec.1 in 11K553—1
AU Australia—490520 rec.——Gaia56
CA Canada—436105 rec.—1Gaia25
GB United Kingdom—400347 rec.—4Gaia64
DE Germany—365302 rec.——Gaia52
CH Switzerland—25747 rec.—53Gaia14

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German74K53%
  • Italian17K12%
  • French11K8%
  • Portuguese9.7K7%
  • Spanish9.6K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German74,16353%
Italian16,85212%
French11,1208%
Portuguese9,7267%
Spanish9,6367%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gaia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name54K records spelled Gaia64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Caya, Gaïa, Gayá, Gayya, Gay-Ya

  • Finnish given name627 records spelled Gaia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Italy, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Gãiã

  • Croatian given name503 records spelled Gaia28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, North Macedonia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Gaja, Гаја, Гая, Gayá, Gayà

  • a separate given name498 records spelled Gaia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Gaïa, Gaià

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gaia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, from the personal name Gaia, feminine form of Gaio (from Latin Caius, Gains).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Italian, habitational name from Gaia in northern Portugal.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Italian, feminine singular of gaio

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, From Latin Gaia or Greek Gaia, ‘earth’.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Diosa

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030019801990200020102020219 · 2023

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Gaia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1980–2025
Yearrecords
19806
19817
19838
19886
19895
19907
19917
19927
199314
19946
19959
199614
199713
199820
199919
200013
200127
200218
200332
200426
200534
200631
200747
200842
200947
201044
201154
201275
201357
201473
201592
201698
201790
2018117
2019136
2020156
2021191
2022198
2023219
2024212
2025157

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Gaia Germani, b. 1934Gaia Zucchi, b. 1970Gaia Manzini, b. 1974Gaia Bolognesi, b. 1980Gaia Bermani Amaral, b. 1980Gaia Scodellaro, b. 1985Gaia Weiss, b. 1991Gaia, b. 1997Gaia Mondadori, b. 2001Gaia Giovannini, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 86 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Gaia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20241.4K#21
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,544
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.4K#2,012
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#2,328
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—874#1,542
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022649—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—629#11,163
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—595#608
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026595#608
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—553#557
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—428—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—340#3,254

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 423 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gaia?
We estimate roughly 6.9 thousand people bear Gaia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Gaia have the most bearers?
Gaia is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled gaia.
How common is Gaia compared with other names?
In Italy, Gaia is the 115th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
Is Gaia a male or female name?
Gaia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Gaia mean?
Recorded meaning: From Greek Gaia, the Earth; name of the earth goddess in Greek mythology.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gaia” — the 115th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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