Gia is espresso in a name — short, dark, warming. An Italian pet form of Gianna, itself the feminine of Giovanni, tracing back through Latin to the Hebrew Yochanan, "God is gracious." The name reached wider American consciousness through the 1998 HBO film Gia, starring Angelina Jolie as the tragic supermodel Gia Carangi, and climbed steadily in the 2010s alongside the larger Italianate wave of Mia, Nia, and Pia. It now holds at 267 on the US charts. Single syllable with two vowels leaning into each other, a soft G. Glossy, modern, unapologetically feminine. A name that travels well on any lips.
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1880 to today
US SSA data. Lower rank number means more popular. A flat line at the top of the chart means the name did not rank in the top 1000.
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