Gia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to increase, to add
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ja˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 13K
- SESweden1 in 23K
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
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
16,606 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to increase, to add
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gia 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.
16,606 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Gia 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 Vietnamese, Hán-Việt chữ ‘家’ (gia), nghĩa là nhà, dòng họ; chữ thứ mười chín trong Đế hệ thi.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Quảng Oai công, Gia Long’s 10th son.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Italian, a diminutive of the female given names Gianna or Giada, masculine equivalent Gio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, guide, leader, founder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aia, we (plural incl.)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Gia Scalab. 1934GBAmerican actress (1934–1972)
- Giya Kanchelib. 1935GEnot in their usual nameSoviet and Georgian composer (1935-2019)
- Ghia Nodiab. 1954GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian political analyst and politician
- Gia Carangib. 1960USAmerican model (1960–1986)
- Wai Ka-faib. 1962CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker (born 1962)
- Gia Caridesb. 1964AUAustralian actress
- Gia Darlingb. 1977USAmerican pornographic film actress, pornographic film director, and businesswoman
- Gia Palomab. 1984USAmerican pornographic actress and director
- Gia Grigalavab. 1989GEGeorgian footballer
- Gia Paigeb. 1990USAmerican/Brazilian pornographic actress
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 74 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171 | #109,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 157 | #111,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37 | #54,836 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37 | #54,555 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is Gia a male or female name?
- Gia 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.
- What are other forms of the name Gia?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Nina is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Gia mean, and where does it come from?
- to increase, to add Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gia?
- A machine transcription gives /ja˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Gia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Gia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gia.
- Where is Gia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gia is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,606 people named Gia in 2020, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giaThe 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, “Gia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.