Gaia

#1,388 for girls in 2025, 157 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 219 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,434
since 1980

Gaia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Gaia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,388157
2024#1,140212
2023#1,120219
2022#1,220198
2021#1,229191
2020#1,398156
2019#1,569136
2018#1,748117
2017#2,12990
2016#2,01798
2015#2,10392
2014#2,46973
2013#2,93657
2012#2,44975
2011#3,09254
2010#3,57244
2009#3,46047
2008#3,77942
2007#3,48247
2006#4,57631
2005#4,11834
2004#4,94926
2003#4,10932
2002#6,12918
2001#4,44727
2000#7,58013
1999#5,42419
1998#5,12320
1997#6,84413
1996#6,39214
1995#8,7669
1994#11,7786
1993#6,26414
1992#10,4797
1991#10,2717
1990#10,1937
1989#12,3625
1988#10,3866
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five girls were named Gaia! It came in at #9,095, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Gaia
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 248 spots since 2024 (#1,140#1,388)
  • 10 spots since 2020 (#1,398#1,388)
  • 715 spots since 2015 (#2,103#1,388)
Rise & fade · girls
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,120 (219 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,327
  • Highest: 1 in 7,327 girls born in 2023 were named Gaia (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 10,237 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 46.5% of all girls named Gaia (1,133) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s32#7,312 (1983)#9,457
1990s116#5,123 (1998)#8,153
2000s317#3,460 (2009)#4,663
2010s836#1,569 (2019)#2,408
2020s1,133#1,120 (2023)#1,249

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Gaia in 2016

girls
#2,017
98 births · 1 in 18,082 girls

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #2,017Gaia98
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 18,082 of them was named Gaia, which outranked 89.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Gaia
  1. #1,996Shae99
  2. #1,996Yatziri99
  3. #1,996Yolanda99
  4. #2,017Gaia98
  5. #2,017Amarie98
  6. #2,017Analeigh98
  7. #2,017Daria98
  8. #2,033Aleeah97
  9. #2,033Amor97
  10. #2,033Billie97

Tied with 15 names at #2,017; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,389Kehlani#3,254#865
  2. 612Royalty#1,146#534
  3. 481Saoirse#1,448#967
  4. 396Ophelia#978#582
  5. 364Aitana#915#551
Fallers
  1. 542Caitlin#610#1,152
  2. 451Caitlyn#598#1,049
  3. 397Katelynn#652#1,049
  4. 382Kaitlynn#989#1,371
  5. 340Neriah#946#1,286

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2016