Genesis
Genesis was given to 3,527 girls in 2025, #66 among girls’ names; 97,244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 96,400 Americans named Genesis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genesis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Genesis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Genesis is “a female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s.” Its etymology gives the sense “creation, beginning, origin” (γένεσις).
From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “creation, beginning, origin”).
/ˈd͡ʒɛ.nə.səs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Genesis?
#66 among girls’ names, 2025
Genesis fell from #65 in 2015 to #66 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.3 to 2.2 per 1,000.
4,450 babies in 2016, the peak
Genesis peaked in 2016, when 4,450 babies were given it (4,351 girls, #58 among girls’ names). The 3,676 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,527 | #66 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 3,849 | #55 | 2.4 |
| 2023 | 3,663 | #57 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 3,448 | #65 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 3,345 | #75 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 3,692 | #62 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 4,031 | #58 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 4,099 | #57 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 4,274 | #56 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 4,351 | #58 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,168 | #65 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 4,170 | #68 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 4,306 | #55 | 2.5 |
| 2012 | 4,309 | #56 | 2.4 |
| 2011 | 3,513 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 3,303 | #89 | 1.9 |
| 2009 | 3,669 | #83 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 3,523 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 2,486 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2006 | 2,088 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 2,224 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 1,858 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,493 | #218 | 0.82 |
| 2002 | 1,372 | #228 | 0.76 |
| 2001 | 1,418 | #224 | 0.79 |
| 2000 | 1,303 | #247 | 0.72 |
| 1999 | 1,244 | #254 | 0.70 |
| 1998 | 1,185 | #260 | 0.67 |
| 1997 | 1,147 | #256 | 0.66 |
| 1996 | 1,028 | #282 | 0.59 |
| 1995 | 796 | #333 | 0.45 |
| 1994 | 1,042 | #270 | 0.58 |
| 1993 | 582 | #431 | 0.32 |
| 1992 | 686 | #373 | 0.37 |
| 1991 | 584 | #434 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 391 | #589 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 322 | #642 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 247 | #758 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 138 | #1,100 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,788 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,683 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,779 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,717 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,928 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,035 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,050 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,926 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,833 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,684 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,503 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,328 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,136 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,244 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,851 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,104 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genesis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 97,244 Americans recorded as Genesis, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 3,527 girls and 149 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Genesis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genesis, and how old are they?
96,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 97,244 Americans ever recorded as Genesis. The median Genesis alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 62,795 people named Genesis (60,592 women and girls, 2,203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74,842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 393 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 52,700 |
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 Genesis born?
The states with the most babies named Genesis are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 636 | #26 | 1.7× |
| California | 581 | #39 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 245 | #68 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 163 | #44 | 1.0× |
| New York | 149 | #106 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 137 | #60 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 129 | #47 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 110 | #77 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 103 | #29 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 102 | #69 | 0.7× |
Where Genesis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Genesis is most over-represented in Texas: since 1964 it was given 1.7 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 Genesis 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 100,605 babies since 1880, Genesis is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,676 of their 3,726 babies (99%), again the 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 Genesis
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 Genesis and names like it
- Compare Genesis and GenessisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGenesis peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genesis since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Genesis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Genesis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.