Gaia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Gaia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Gaia: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #412, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#412highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1365
1998	#1571
1999	#1805
2000	#1831
2001	#1063
2002	#1192
2003	#1176
2004	#1252
2005	#1589
2006	#1280
2007	#1196
2008	#1247
2009	#1209
2010	#1180
2011	#1225
2012	#1037
2013	#1537
2014	#890
2015	#1139
2016	#1142
2017	#836
2018	#843
2019	#616
2020	#624
2021	#634
2022	#447
2023	#490
2024	#526

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #412 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #526 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #412 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2007–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #526 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Gaia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 962 births with the name.

Gaia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Gaia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#447 (2022)	#526 (2024)	29 of 29	962 (1996–2024)	95 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#842 (2007)	#412 (2024)	#412 (2024)	15 of 18	70 (2007–2024)	9 (2024)

Gaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Gaia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	40	4 of 10	10
2000s	187	10 of 10	19
2010s	363	10 of 10	36
2020sbusiest	372	5 of 10	74

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 34, from 61 to 95.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Gaia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #412 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Gaia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#526	74	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#490	81	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#447	95	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#634	61	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#624	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#616	64	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#843	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#836	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1142	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#890	42	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1037	34	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1180	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1247	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1196	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1176	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1063	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #412, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 95 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Gabriels · #548, 13y
Gael · #362, 19y
Gail · #15, 47y
Gaja · #651, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elianna · #413, 24y
Kaycee · #413, 28y
Patsy · #414, 29y
Emaan · #415, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abbigail · #413, 27y
Chelsy · #413, 19y
Hari · #411, 29y
Karys · #413, 21y

Gaia was ranked #412 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Gaia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Gaia without appearing here.

Gaia moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1063 and #3998.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1365 and #3824.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1589 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1280 and #3548.
Evan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1365 and #3174.

Moved ahead of Gaia

Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1252 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1589 and #951.
Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1176 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1252 and #736.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1209 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1180 and #773.
Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1063 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1192 and #809.

Moved the opposite way to Gaia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Gaia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gaia went from #2096 to #526 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #412 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gaia

Gaia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Gaia across 2 official records

Gaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Gaia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Gaia

Gaia and the names beside it

Gaia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Gaia

Moved the opposite way to Gaia

Moved the same way as Gaia

Gaia at a glance

Gaia across 2 official records

Gaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Gaia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Gaia

Gaia and the names beside it

Gaia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Gaia

Moved the opposite way to Gaia

Moved the same way as Gaia