Given name & surname
Gioia
“one who brings joy”
Gioia is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “one who brings joy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “one who brings joy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gioia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 732
- 0 boys · 732 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 18
- #6,401 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −10%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 18 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,401 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 10.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 683 as a first name in 2020; 2,178 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gioia’s family of names
Gioia has a related form in Gioya. In Italian usage, Gioia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Joy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gioia
- Gioia BarbieriItalian tennis playerborn 1991
- Gioia Marzoccafencerborn 1979
- Gioia ArismendiItalian-Venezuelan actress and modelborn 1984
- Gioia MasiaItalian footballerborn 1977
- Gioia BrunoAmerican singerborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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