Genna
Genna was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 3,032 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Genna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Genna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Genna is “a female given name.”
A variant of Jenna with the spelling possibly influenced by Gina or Gianna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Genna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,105, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
144 babies in 1986, the peak
Genna peaked in 1986, when 144 girls were given it, #1,050 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,105 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,993 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,158 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,565 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,548 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,387 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,803 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,964 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,349 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,822 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #8,201 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,558 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,959 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,611 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,780 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,044 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,802 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,441 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,863 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,532 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,656 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,245 | 41.6 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,920 | 51.2 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,102 | 43.9 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,988 | 46.3 |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,000 | 44.0 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,979 | 43.0 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,990 | 41.4 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,768 | 47.9 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,786 | 45.5 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,648 | 51.0 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,762 | 45.9 |
| 1992 | 122 | #1,357 | 66.2 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,708 | 45.3 |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,567 | 51.1 |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,523 | 51.0 |
| 1988 | 104 | #1,367 | 58.4 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,166 | 72.5 |
| 1986 | 144 | #1,050 | 83.9 |
| 1985 | 105 | #1,280 | 61.0 |
| 1984 | 125 | #1,106 | 74.2 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,081 | 28.7 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,159 | 27.8 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,893 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,359 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,178 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,672 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,409 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,562 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,529 | 21.3 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,455 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,051 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,927 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,634 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,168 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,674 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,670 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,142 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,081 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,975 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,759 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,110 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,336 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,482 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,462 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,216 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,646 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,635 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,735 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,157 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,456 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,942 | 3.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,489 | 4.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,987 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genna, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,032 Americans ever recorded as Genna. The median Genna alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,176 people named Genna (3,159 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,924 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 103 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 937 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
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 Genna born?
The states with the most babies named Genna are New York, California and Michigan, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 276 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 93 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 85 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Genna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Genna is most over-represented in New York: since 1934 it was given 1.3 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 Genna 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 26,647 babies since 1880, Genna is the second most given (11% 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 Genna
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 Genna and names like it
- Compare Genna and GenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGenna peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genna since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Genna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Genna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.