Gaia
#1,388 for girls in 2025, 157 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 219 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,434since 1980
Gaia over time
Rank among girls' names. Gaia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,388 | 157 |
| 2024 | #1,140 | 212 |
| 2023 | #1,120 | 219 |
| 2022 | #1,220 | 198 |
| 2021 | #1,229 | 191 |
| 2020 | #1,398 | 156 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 |
| 2018 | #1,748 | 117 |
| 2017 | #2,129 | 90 |
| 2016 | #2,017 | 98 |
| 2015 | #2,103 | 92 |
| 2014 | #2,469 | 73 |
| 2013 | #2,936 | 57 |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2010 | #3,572 | 44 |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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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.
Where Gaia is popular in 1980
No state had 5 or more girls named Gaia in 1980, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Gaia
- 248 spots since 2024 (#1,140 → #1,388)
- 10 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,388)
- 715 spots since 2015 (#2,103 → #1,388)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2023 at #1,120 (219 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 46.5% of all girls named Gaia (1,133) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 32 | #7,312 (1983) | #9,457 |
| 1990s | 116 | #5,123 (1998) | #8,153 |
| 2000s | 317 | #3,460 (2009) | #4,663 |
| 2010s | 836 | #1,569 (2019) | #2,408 |
| 2020s | 1,133 | #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 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 276,718 of them was named Gaia, which outranked 25.2% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,178Zanetta7
- #8,178Zelma7
- #8,178Zenda7
- #9,095Gaia6
- #9,095Abigael6
- #9,095Adalia6
- #9,095Adama6
- #10,392Abbegail5
- #10,392Abel5
- #10,392Abelina5
Tied with 1,296 names at #9,095; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.