Geena
Geena was last recorded in 2017, when 8 babies were given it; 1,554 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Geena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 26 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Geena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,005, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
163 babies in 1994, the peak
Geena peaked in 1994, when 163 girls were given it, #1,101 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | #12,005 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,383 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,213 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,297 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,213 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,975 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,555 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,958 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,837 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,679 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 23 | #5,955 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,496 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,362 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,528 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,897 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,980 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,266 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,315 | 36.9 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,409 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,128 | 38.5 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,989 | 41.4 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,756 | 48.5 |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,408 | 66.0 |
| 1994 | 163 | #1,101 | 91.3 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,362 | 66.9 |
| 1992 | 117 | #1,401 | 63.5 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,594 | 50.7 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,994 | 35.8 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,717 | 42.9 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,907 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,389 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,926 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,022 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,444 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,403 | 2.9 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,655 | 4.7 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,271 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Geena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Geena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geena, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,554 Americans ever recorded as Geena. The median Geena alive today is 31 years old; half are between 26 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,661 people named Geena (1,658 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 903 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 562 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 43 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Geena born?
The states with the most babies named Geena are California, New York and New Jersey, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 242 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 160 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 66 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 35 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Geena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geena is most over-represented in New York: since 1956 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Geena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,109 babies since 1880, Geena is the fourth most given (7.0% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Geena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Geena and names like it
- Compare Geena and GenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGeena peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geena since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Geena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Geena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.