Meaning not yet researched.
Gaia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 157 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,122 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,122 in 2023; #1,392 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gaia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,392 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,122.
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Gaia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 157 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,122 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 219 (2023).
In 2025, 157 US girls were named Gaia, making it the 1,392nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 248 places from #1,144 in 2024. That is 55 fewer than the 212 girls named Gaia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,122, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 219. For comparison, it was #2,107 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gaia in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 6 babies. In all, 2,434 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,133 babies named Gaia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,574 US girls were named Gaia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 219. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gaia ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #581 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gia (22,700 babies since 1880), Caia (1,201 babies since 1880), Gay (19,367 babies since 1880) and Gaye (5,746 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gaia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 9 | #581 | — |
| New York | 23 | #711 | #1,317 |
| Virginia | 9 | #794 | #994 |
| Florida | 17 | #927 | — |
| California | 24 | #1,096 | #1,612 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,239 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,836 | #3,452 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 2023 | 219 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2022 | 198 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 2015 | 92 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,588 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,478 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,143 | — | — |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,984 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,135 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,232 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,726 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,209 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,990 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,496 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,010 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,300 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,381 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,858 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,647 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,575 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,050 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,794 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,521 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,397 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,456 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).