Gioia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: joy, delight
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒoʊjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gioia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 31K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 144K
- BRBrazil1 in 265K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,305 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
joy, delight
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gioia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,305 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Gioia | 79 |
| AR Argentina | 1,458 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Gioia | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 800 | 1 in 265K | 800 | Gioia | 81 |
| UY Uruguay | 413 | 1 in 8.2K | 413 | Gioia | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | 183 | 1 in 46K | 183 | Gioia | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 69 | 1 in 170K | 69 | — | 2 |
2,305 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Gioia 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, nome femminile; forse traduzione di un nome ebraico; in Piemonte anche voce dialettale per «cornacchia»
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Bel noiiie feiiirninile, ulie tra gli Israeliti forse ì : traduzionc <li un nome ebraico. Al3 in Piemonte, oltre 1 1 cognome Gioia, si trova Cioia, che nelle Alpi del IIondovi (ciuaiu. cioia) significa roriiacchia 11. I r i il C Jlongioie ii che secondo qu;llchc erudito paessnn <arebhe iUons lovis >i & invece il << monte drllr cor- naccbic u.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, do fr. antigo joie; pode ser matronímico ou toponímico
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
jewel; Argentina
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Felicità / Pietra preziosa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Flavio Gioiab. 1300ITimaginary Italian mariner and inventor
- Melchiorre Giojab. 1767ITnot in their usual nameItalian economist and philosopher (1767-1829)
- Gaetano Gioiab. 1768ITballet dancer and choreographer
- Pasquale Gioiab. 1872ITItalian catholic bishop (1872-1935)
- Giovanni Gioiab. 1925ITItalian politician (1925–1981)
- Anthony H. Gioiab. 1941USAmerican diplomat and businessman
- Dana Gioiab. 1950USAmerican writer (born 1950)
- Ted Gioiab. 1957USAmerican jazz critic and music historian, writer
- Mauro Gioiab. 1966ITItalian singer and documentarist
- Natalie Gioiab. 1982RUTrance Vocalist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,246 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,377 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 800 | #11,256 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 413 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 183 | #6,759 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 69 | #20,620 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Gioia mean, and where does it come from?
- joy, delight Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gioia?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒoʊjə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gioia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Gioia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gioia.
- Where is Gioia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gioia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gioia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,305 people named Gioia in 2010, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
- What are other forms of the name Gioia?
- In the etymology graph, Gaudio is a form of the same name in other languages.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gioiaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gioia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.