# Gia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 22,700 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 22,695 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,108, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* (name from Italian): Borrowed from Italian Gia * (name from Greek): Clipping of Georgia.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,057 | 300 |
| 2012 | 938 | 333 |
| 2013 | 933 | 349 |
| 2014 | 887 | 367 |
| 2015 | 879 | 373 |
| 2016 | 873 | 374 |
| 2017 | 783 | 401 |
| 2018 | 803 | 387 |
| 2019 | 762 | 411 |
| 2020 | 938 | 331 |
| 2021 | 1,141 | 277 |
| 2022 | 1,183 | 268 |
| 2023 | 1,163 | 269 |
| 2024 | 1,195 | 268 |
| 2025 | 1,069 | 287 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | 6,138 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 841 |
| 2012 | 36 | 998 |
| 2013 | 32 | 1,098 |
| 2014 | 42 | 890 |
| 2015 | 38 | 942 |
| 2016 | 53 | 744 |
| 2017 | 42 | 899 |
| 2018 | 55 | 720 |
| 2019 | 51 | 749 |
| 2020 | 52 | 710 |
| 2021 | 62 | 625 |
| 2022 | 84 | 486 |
| 2023 | 86 | 461 |
| 2024 | 86 | 474 |
| 2025 | 154 | 293 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |

## In other languages

- Italian: Gia

## People named Gia

- Gia Carangi, American model (1960–1986)
- Gia Scala, American actress (1934–1972)
- Gia Paloma, American pornographic actress and director
- Gia Carides, Australian actress
- Gia Grigalava, Georgian footballer
- Gia Darling, American pornographic film actress, pornographic film director, and businesswoman
- Gia Allemand, American actress, model, reality TV contestant (1983-2013)
- Gia Gunn, American drag queen
- Gia Farrell, American musician
- Gia Lewis-Smallwood, American discus thrower
- Gia Bugadze, Georgian artist
- Gia Guruli, Georgian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.