Genavieve
Genavieve was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,778 among girls’ names; 848 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genavieve by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Genavieve?
#13,778 among girls’ names, 2025
Genavieve fell from #5,350 in 2015 to #13,778 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 3.7 per million.
49 babies in 2011, the peak
Genavieve peaked in 2011, when 49 girls were given it, #3,321 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,778 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,480 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,769 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,203 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,385 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,535 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,516 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,802 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,721 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,565 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,350 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,950 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,802 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,300 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,321 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,135 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,819 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,886 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,809 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,749 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,417 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,512 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,132 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,751 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,246 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,547 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,087 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,828 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,498 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,045 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,880 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,070 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,964 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,276 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,884 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,797 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,280 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,634 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,947 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genavieve a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genavieve has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genavieve: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genavieve, and how old are they?
An estimated 839 Americans named Genavieve and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Genavieve (647 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Genavieve born?
The states with the most babies named Genavieve are California, Texas and Michigan, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 122 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Genavieve is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Genavieve is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 1.1 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 Genavieve 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 128,369 babies since 1880, Genavieve is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,995 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Genavieve
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 Genavieve and names like it
- Compare Genavieve and GenevieveBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGenavieve peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genavieve since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Genavieve.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Genavieve alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.