Gaia — #1147 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Gaia

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,274 babies named Gaia between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gaia currently holds the #1147 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 218 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaia performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 973 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Gaia shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 376 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Gaia in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,274 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.