Gaja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gaea, Gaia (Greek goddess of the earth)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 6.3K
- ISIceland1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gaja itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
6,051 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled গাজা in BD Bangladesh.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gaea, Gaia (Greek goddess of the earth)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaja 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.
6,051 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Gaja 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.
the origin and the goal; elephant.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, The sacred name for the elephant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, gay, merry, glad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dtp, elephant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In snk, to fight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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. 1934ITnot in their usual nameactress (1934–2019)
- Gaia Tortorab. 1969ITnot in their usual nameItalian journalist
- Gaia Bermani Amaralb. 1980BRnot in their usual nameactress
- Gaja Grzegorzewskab. 1980PLPolish writer
- Gaia Scodellarob. 1985ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor
- Gaia Messerklingerb. 1989ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress
- Gaia Gorinib. 1992ITnot in their usual nameItalian basketball player (born 1992)
- Gaia Sanesib. 1992ITnot in their usual nameItalian tennis player
- Gaja Natlačenb. 1997SISlovenian swimmer
- Gaia Cauchib. 2002MTnot in their usual nameMaltese singer
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 47 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 43 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 33 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 33 | #65,351 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gaja mean, and where does it come from?
- Gaea, Gaia (Greek goddess of the earth) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gaja a male or female name?
- Gaja is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gaja have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Gaja, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gaja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Gaja?
- In the etymology graph, GaeA is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Gaja?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,051 people named Gaja in 2026, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gajaThe 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, “Gaja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.