Gene — #1900 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Gene

The Social Security Administration has registered 126,812 babies named Gene between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gene currently holds the #1900 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1937, when 3,165 babies received it in a single year. Gene is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,997 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gene performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 29,312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Gene shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 8,015 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Gene in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gene in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 126,812 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.