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Gaya

Girls' name

Form of Gaia

Gaya has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2024, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Gaya, 2024

1 in 371,000

Gaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gaia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gaya means

Gaya is a form of Gaia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gaya is used in Hebrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gaya → Gaia. The family’s proposed meaning is “Gaea, the Earth personified as a goddess”, recorded in English with the source elements Gaîă.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gaia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Gaya between 1952 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,116 in 1952.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gaya?

Gaya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaya was born before 2011 — so the typical Gaya is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Gaya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (9)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,116
1952

Spellings of Gaya

Gaya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 10.3% against Gaya's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gaya around the world

Where Gaya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #5,532
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gaya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,116
1952
Peak year
2024
9 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gaya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gaya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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