Genessis
Genessis was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,984 among girls’ names; 1,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Genessis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genessis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Genessis?
#5,984 among girls’ names, 2025
Genessis fell from #3,671 in 2015 to #5,984 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 12.4 per million.
86 babies in 2009, the peak
Genessis peaked in 2009, when 86 girls were given it, #2,276 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,984 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,741 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,290 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,301 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,818 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,155 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,282 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,753 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,093 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,609 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,671 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,152 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,779 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,486 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,956 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,621 | 38.8 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,276 | 46.8 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,813 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,223 | 27.6 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,750 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,418 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,627 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,987 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,228 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,893 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,028 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,088 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,536 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,974 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,970 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,725 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,412 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,706 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,911 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,748 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,013 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,636 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,396 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genessis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genessis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genessis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genessis, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,227 Americans ever recorded as Genessis. The median Genessis alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 841 people named Genessis (829 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 618 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 425 |
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 Genessis born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,477 | 1.4× |
Where Genessis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Genessis is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 2.4 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 Genessis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Genessis?
Genessis is a less common spelling of Genesis: SSA has recorded 1,227 Genessis and 97,244 Genesis since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 100,605 babies since 1880, Genessis is the second most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 3,726 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Genessis
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 Genessis and names like it
- Compare Genessis and GenesisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGenessis peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genessis since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Genessis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Genessis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.