Geneva
Geneva was given to 125 girls in 2025, #1,657 among girls’ names; 89,067 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,100 Americans named Geneva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 40 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geneva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Geneva mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Geneva is “a female given name transferred from the place name or confused with Genevieve or Ginevra.”
Mentioned in Latin texts as Genava. Probably via a Proto-Celtic *genwā from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a derivative of *ǵónu in the sense of a bending river or estuary, possibly akin to Genoa.
/d͡ʒəˈniːvə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Geneva?
#1,657 among girls’ names, 2025
Geneva fell from #1,220 in 2015 to #1,657 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
2,590 babies in 1924, the peak
Geneva peaked in 1924, when 2,590 babies were given it (2,582 girls, #110 among girls’ names). The 125 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,657 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,602 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,537 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,492 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,589 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 152 | #1,434 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 160 | #1,407 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,400 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 195 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 203 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 170 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 158 | #1,432 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 185 | #1,288 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,443 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,493 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,387 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,499 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,402 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,406 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 151 | #1,421 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 155 | #1,357 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,333 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,219 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 164 | #1,230 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,244 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 180 | #1,101 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 180 | #1,079 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 184 | #1,037 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 185 | #1,011 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 190 | #984 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 197 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 209 | #915 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 208 | #933 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 210 | #914 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 231 | #850 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 226 | #834 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 238 | #789 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 188 | #894 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 209 | #803 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 236 | #734 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 218 | #747 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 258 | #667 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 246 | #707 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 260 | #672 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 257 | #678 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 230 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 248 | #652 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 249 | #652 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 247 | #628 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 252 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 214 | #688 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 285 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 249 | #625 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 239 | #663 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 297 | #591 | 0.17 |
| 1969 | 263 | #614 | 0.16 |
| 1968 | 261 | #594 | 0.16 |
| 1967 | 293 | #549 | 0.18 |
| 1966 | 287 | #560 | 0.17 |
| 1965 | 300 | #550 | 0.17 |
| 1964 | 376 | #504 | 0.20 |
| 1963 | 343 | #526 | 0.18 |
| 1962 | 371 | #501 | 0.19 |
| 1961 | 425 | #472 | 0.21 |
| 1960 | 431 | #470 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 457 | #451 | 0.23 |
| 1958 | 492 | #422 | 0.24 |
| 1957 | 560 | #385 | 0.27 |
| 1956 | 545 | #381 | 0.27 |
| 1955 | 559 | #370 | 0.29 |
| 1954 | 646 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1953 | 746 | #301 | 0.40 |
| 1952 | 694 | #304 | 0.37 |
| 1951 | 720 | #293 | 0.40 |
| 1950 | 756 | #285 | 0.44 |
| 1949 | 787 | #275 | 0.46 |
| 1948 | 828 | #270 | 0.49 |
| 1947 | 925 | #246 | 0.52 |
| 1946 | 955 | #233 | 0.61 |
| 1945 | 913 | #212 | 0.70 |
| 1944 | 916 | #215 | 0.69 |
| 1943 | 995 | #209 | 0.71 |
| 1942 | 1,046 | #198 | 0.77 |
| 1941 | 1,051 | #180 | 0.87 |
| 1940 | 1,069 | #178 | 0.93 |
| 1939 | 1,143 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1938 | 1,179 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1937 | 1,331 | #158 | 1.3 |
| 1936 | 1,335 | #153 | 1.3 |
| 1935 | 1,306 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1934 | 1,472 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 1933 | 1,419 | #141 | 1.4 |
| 1932 | 1,632 | #137 | 1.5 |
| 1931 | 1,664 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1930 | 1,798 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 1929 | 1,846 | #130 | 1.7 |
| 1928 | 1,981 | #124 | 1.7 |
| 1927 | 2,263 | #119 | 1.9 |
| 1926 | 2,329 | #117 | 2.0 |
| 1925 | 2,470 | #109 | 2.0 |
| 1924 | 2,582 | #110 | 2.1 |
| 1923 | 2,406 | #111 | 2.0 |
| 1922 | 2,444 | #110 | 2.0 |
| 1921 | 2,485 | #113 | 2.0 |
| 1920 | 2,467 | #106 | 2.1 |
| 1919 | 2,262 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 1918 | 2,191 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 1917 | 1,997 | #113 | 1.8 |
| 1916 | 1,919 | #112 | 1.8 |
| 1915 | 1,856 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 1914 | 1,371 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 1913 | 1,069 | #120 | 1.7 |
| 1912 | 991 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1911 | 688 | #122 | 1.6 |
| 1910 | 699 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 1909 | 539 | #131 | 1.6 |
| 1908 | 511 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1907 | 464 | #141 | 1.5 |
| 1906 | 396 | #151 | 1.3 |
| 1905 | 398 | #149 | 1.4 |
| 1904 | 374 | #145 | 1.4 |
| 1903 | 308 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1902 | 308 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1901 | 244 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 1900 | 319 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 1899 | 218 | #189 | 0.94 |
| 1898 | 220 | #196 | 0.85 |
| 1897 | 183 | #204 | 0.78 |
| 1896 | 197 | #197 | 0.83 |
| 1895 | 180 | #203 | 0.77 |
| 1894 | 180 | #195 | 0.81 |
| 1893 | 152 | #207 | 0.71 |
| 1892 | 131 | #226 | 0.62 |
| 1891 | 96 | #249 | 0.52 |
| 1890 | 112 | #230 | 0.59 |
| 1889 | 117 | #213 | 0.66 |
| 1888 | 109 | #221 | 0.61 |
| 1887 | 95 | #211 | 0.65 |
| 1886 | 71 | #246 | 0.49 |
| 1885 | 50 | #281 | 0.38 |
| 1884 | 63 | #240 | 0.49 |
| 1883 | 48 | #262 | 0.43 |
| 1882 | 47 | #252 | 0.44 |
| 1881 | 35 | #273 | 0.38 |
| 1880 | 28 | #298 | 0.31 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Geneva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geneva has been given almost only to girls: 309 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Geneva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geneva, and how old are they?
27,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 30% of the 89,067 Americans ever recorded as Geneva. The median Geneva alive today is 66 years old; half are between 40 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 27,609 people named Geneva (27,558 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6,180 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8,740 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,870 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Geneva born?
The states with the most babies named Geneva are Kentucky, Texas and North Carolina, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6,483 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 6,474 | #2,277 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 4,916 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 4,746 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Tennessee | 4,369 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| South Carolina | 4,249 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Oklahoma | 3,417 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Arkansas | 3,368 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 3,213 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 3,194 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Geneva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geneva is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.1 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 Geneva 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 96,554 babies since 1880, Geneva is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 125 of their 160 babies (78%), 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 Geneva
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 Geneva and names like it
- Compare Geneva and GenovevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGeneva peaked in 1924.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geneva since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Geneva: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Geneva.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Geneva alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.