Genia
Genia was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 1,673 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Genia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Genia mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Genia is “a diminutive of the female given name Genowefa”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Eugenia”
Back-formation from Genowefa + -ia.
/ˈɡɛ.ɲa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Genia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,916, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1964, the peak
Genia peaked in 1964, when 57 girls were given it, #1,502 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,916 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,958 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,451 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,995 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,569 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,084 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,126 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,987 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,678 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,503 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 11 | #8,959 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,228 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,879 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,179 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,506 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,343 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,189 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,172 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,250 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,783 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,348 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,697 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,124 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,689 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,918 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,764 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,180 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,381 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,998 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,575 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,942 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,437 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,475 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,282 | 26.1 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,569 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,621 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,899 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,313 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,587 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,702 | 34.2 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,915 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,864 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,794 | 27.9 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,818 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,829 | 24.8 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,654 | 27.2 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,702 | 24.9 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,502 | 30.1 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,528 | 28.0 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,864 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,568 | 25.8 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,770 | 20.3 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,624 | 22.2 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,178 | 13.4 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,758 | 18.6 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,878 | 16.4 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,016 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,542 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,981 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,852 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,169 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,705 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,361 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,030 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,121 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,783 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,220 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,321 | 11.3 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,912 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,034 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,939 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,013 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,450 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,933 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,529 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,459 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,704 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,460 | 7.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,090 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,504 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,246 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,535 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,801 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,142 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,089 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,575 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,866 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,980 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,341 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,415 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,156 | 9.0 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,709 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,620 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,056 | 17.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,040 | 16.7 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,342 | 28.3 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,177 | 34.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genia, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 1,673 Americans ever recorded as Genia. The median Genia alive today is 56 years old; half are between 46 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 1,550 people named Genia (1,537 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 556 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 194 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 108 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,647 babies since 1880, Genia is the fifth most given (6.3% of them).
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 Genia
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 Genia and names like it
- Compare Genia and GenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGenia peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genia since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Genia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Genia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Genia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with GMost given first.