Gioia
Gioia was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,400 among girls’ names; 732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gioia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gioia mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Gioia is “a female given name, equivalent to English Joy” Its etymology gives the sense “joy” (gioia).
From gioia (“joy”).
/ˈd͡ʒɔ.ja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gioia?
#6,400 among girls’ names, 2025
Gioia rose from #7,081 in 2015 to #6,400 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 11.2 per million.
25 babies in 2016, the peak
Gioia peaked in 2016, when 25 girls were given it, #5,342 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,400 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,503 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,816 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,812 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,251 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,157 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,669 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,662 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,909 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,342 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,081 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,856 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,326 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,421 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,799 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,311 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,593 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,141 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,178 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,859 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,372 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,886 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,686 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,470 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,960 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,765 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,996 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,521 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,264 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,258 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,684 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,855 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,654 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,078 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,261 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,665 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,919 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,452 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,067 | 5.3 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,903 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,416 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,025 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,267 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,220 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,536 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,168 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,382 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,384 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,014 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,300 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,119 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,113 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,028 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,774 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,806 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,412 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,173 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,405 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,738 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,534 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,463 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,691 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,008 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,177 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gioia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gioia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gioia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gioia, and how old are they?
An estimated 684 Americans named Gioia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 683 people named Gioia (682 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 27,970 babies since 1880, Gioia is the third most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,147 babies (1.6%), again the third 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 Gioia
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 Gioia and names like it
- Compare Gioia and GiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGioia peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gioia since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gioia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Gioia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gioia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.