Gia
Gia was given to 1,069 girls in 2025, #287 among girls’ names; 22,700 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,300 Americans named Gia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gia is “a female given name.”
Also “a female given name from Italian.”
(name from Italian): Borrowed from Italian Gia
(name from Greek): Clipping of Georgia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gia?
#287 among girls’ names, 2025
Gia rose from #373 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.49 to 0.67 per 1,000.
1,195 babies in 2024, the peak
Gia peaked in 2024, when 1,195 girls were given it, #268 among girls’ names. The 1,069 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,069 | #287 | 0.67 |
| 2024 | 1,195 | #268 | 0.74 |
| 2023 | 1,163 | #269 | 0.72 |
| 2022 | 1,183 | #268 | 0.72 |
| 2021 | 1,141 | #277 | 0.70 |
| 2020 | 938 | #331 | 0.58 |
| 2019 | 762 | #411 | 0.45 |
| 2018 | 803 | #387 | 0.47 |
| 2017 | 783 | #401 | 0.45 |
| 2016 | 873 | #374 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 879 | #373 | 0.49 |
| 2014 | 887 | #367 | 0.50 |
| 2013 | 933 | #349 | 0.53 |
| 2012 | 938 | #333 | 0.53 |
| 2011 | 1,057 | #300 | 0.60 |
| 2010 | 814 | #390 | 0.46 |
| 2009 | 507 | #596 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 417 | #714 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 449 | #658 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 454 | #633 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 372 | #728 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 348 | #753 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 330 | #754 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 326 | #745 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 318 | #755 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 225 | #949 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 199 | #1,023 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 174 | #1,107 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,670 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,350 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,266 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,089 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,523 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,033 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,954 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,910 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,738 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,031 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,774 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,981 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,420 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,635 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 78 | #1,526 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 77 | #1,552 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,649 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 90 | #1,332 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 93 | #1,278 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,607 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,502 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,288 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,383 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 116 | #1,012 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 125 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 166 | #829 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 192 | #728 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,034 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 93 | #1,081 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 132 | #872 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 113 | #968 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 71 | #1,336 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 79 | #1,235 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 59 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,569 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gia has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gia, and how old are they?
22,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 22,700 Americans ever recorded as Gia. The median Gia alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 16,606 people named Gia (15,924 women and girls, 682 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,000 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 353 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,500 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gia born?
The states with the most babies named Gia are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 150 | #223 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 128 | #271 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 94 | #197 | 1.2× |
| New York | 93 | #173 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 64 | #122 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 44 | #234 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #272 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 33 | #339 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 28 | #253 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 24 | #367 | 0.6× |
Where Gia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gia is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1957 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 28,109 babies since 1880, Gia is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,069 of their 1,157 babies (92%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gia and names like it
- Compare Gia and GigiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGia peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gia since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Gia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.