Gia
#287 for girls in 2025, 1,069 births · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,772
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 1,183 births
- Debut · girls
- 18 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,695since 1957
Gia over time
Rank among girls' names. Gia has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #287 | 1,069 | — | |
| 2024 | #268 | 1,195 | — | |
| 2023 | #269 | 1,163 | — | |
| 2022 | #267 | 1,183 | — | |
| 2021 | #277 | 1,141 | — | |
| 2020 | #331 | 938 | — | |
| 2019 | #411 | 762 | — | |
| 2018 | #387 | 803 | — | |
| 2017 | #401 | 783 | — | |
| 2016 | #374 | 873 | — | |
| 2015 | #372 | 879 | — | |
| 2014 | #367 | 887 | — | |
| 2013 | #349 | 933 | — | |
| 2012 | #333 | 938 | — | |
| 2011 | #299 | 1,057 | — | |
| 2010 | #390 | 814 | — | |
| 2009 | #596 | 507 | — | |
| 2008 | #714 | 417 | — | |
| 2007 | #658 | 449 | — | |
| 2006 | #633 | 454 | — | |
| 2005 | #727 | 372 | — | |
| 2004 | #753 | 348 | — | |
| 2003 | #753 | 330 | — | |
| 2002 | #744 | 326 | — | |
| 2001 | #755 | 318 | — | |
| 2000 | #946 | 225 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,023 | 199 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,105 | 174 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,659 | 47 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,189 | 61 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,090 | 65 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,513 | 50 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,034 | 67 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,952 | 70 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,910 | 68 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,738 | 73 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,024 | 55 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,770 | 65 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,975 | 55 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,414 | 82 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,629 | 68 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,525 | 78 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,549 | 77 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,552 | 75 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,645 | 68 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,332 | 90 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #1,275 | 93 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,602 | 62 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,498 | 68 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,284 | 83 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,012 | 116 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,000 | 125 | — | |
| 1970 | #827 | 166 | — | |
| 1969 | #728 | 192 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,031 | 101 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,081 | 93 | — | |
| 1966 | #872 | 132 | — | |
| 1965 | #966 | 113 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,334 | 71 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,233 | 79 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,444 | 59 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,568 | 52 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,764 | 41 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,516 | 51 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,630 | 43 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Gia! It came in at #2,727, and was given to 18 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 19 girls a year got the name.
See more about Gia
- 19 spots since 2024 (#268 → #287)
- 44 spots since 2020 (#331 → #287)
- 85 spots since 2015 (#372 → #287)
- Biggest jump: 368 spots in 1965 (#1,334 → #966)
- Biggest drop: 209 spots in 1967 (#872 → #1,081)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2022 at #267 (1,183 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,356 girls born in 2024 were named Gia (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,504 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
- Its best rank, #267 in 2022, was only 1 in 1,386 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.5% of all girls named Gia (8,729) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 112 | #1,516 (1959) | #1,958 |
| 1960s | 933 | #728 (1969) | #1,202 |
| 1970s | 943 | #827 (1970) | #1,285 |
| 1980s | 696 | #1,414 (1984) | #1,709 |
| 1990s | 847 | #1,023 (1999) | #2,016 |
| 2000s | 3,746 | #596 (2009) | #728 |
| 2010s | 8,729 | #299 (2011) | #368 |
| 2020s | 6,689 | #267 (2022) | #283 |
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.
Gia in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 17,021 of them was named Gia, which outranked 88.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,314Roxann91
- #1,314Torie91
- #1,314Tyesha91
- #1,332Gia90
- #1,332Lakia90
- #1,332Latoshia90
- #1,332Mamie90
- #1,341Dorian89
- #1,341Jonna89
- #1,341Lakita89
Tied with 8 names at #1,332; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Gia, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.