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Gaja

Gender
Girl
Say it
GAH-ya
Origin
Greek
UK rank, 2025
#3,776 for girls

Gaja is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “earth”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).

What does Gaja mean?

Greek: Polish and South Slavic form of Gaia

“earth”

A Slavic spelling of Gaia, the Greek goddess who personifies the Earth.

Is Gaja a girl's or a boy's name?

Gaja is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Gaja in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,776among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 46,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 38% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Gaja, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 13 girls.

Half of all the girls named Gaja in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.

2005Busiest: 13 in 20212025
Gaja in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#3,776
20243#5,966
20236#3,766
202213#2,157
202113#2,202
20207#3,274
201912#2,275
20185#4,204
201710#2,652
20161#7,664
20156#3,777
20140–
20134#4,953
20129#2,887
20114#4,980
20105#4,220
20094#4,795
20080–
20070–
20060–
20054#4,150

Names like Gaja

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Greek names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Gaja: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gaja, updated 20 October 2026.