Gaia
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Greek Gaia, the Earth; name of the earth goddess in Greek mythology.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 11K
- SISlovenia1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Gaia, the Earth; name of the earth goddess in Greek mythology.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1.4K | — | 96 |
| US United States | 1,448 | 1 in 230K | 1.4K | Gaia | 188 |
| ES Spain | 1,346 | 1 in 37K | 1.3K | — | 26 |
| FR France | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 1.7K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 649 | 1 in 326K | 649 | Gaia | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 553 | 1 in 11K | 553 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 170 | 1 in 12K | 171 | — | 3 |
| AL Albania | 127 | 1 in 24K | 127 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gaia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, from the personal name Gaia, feminine form of Gaio (from Latin Caius, Gains).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, habitational name from Gaia in northern Portugal.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, feminine singular of gaio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, From Latin Gaia or Greek Gaia, ‘earth’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Diosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gaia Germanib. 1934ITactress (1934–2019)
- Gaia Zucchib. 1970ITItalian actress, showgirl and writer
- Gaia Manzinib. 1974ITItalian writer
- Gaia Bolognesib. 1980ITItalian voice actress
- Gaia Bermani Amaralb. 1980BRactress
- Gaia Scodellarob. 1985ITItalian actor
- Gaia Weissb. 1991FRFrench actress and model
- Gaiab. 1997ITItalian singer-songwriter
- Gaia Mondadorib. 2001GBBritish actress
- Gaia Giovanninib. 2001ITItalian international volleyball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1.4K | #21 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,544 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #2,012 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #2,328 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 874 | #1,542 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 649 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 629 | #11,163 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 553 | #557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 301 | #70,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 293 | #67,318 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 261 | #70,052 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 257 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Gaia, the Earth; name of the earth goddess in Greek mythology. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Gaia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Gaia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gaia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,448 people named Gaia in 2020, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaiaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gaia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.