Gennesis
Gennesis was last recorded in 2024, when 18 babies were given it; 684 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gennesis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gennesis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,483, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 2014, the peak
Gennesis peaked in 2014, when 44 girls were given it, #3,556 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18 | #6,483 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,202 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,085 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,804 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,426 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,818 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,853 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,563 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,508 | 13.5 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,543 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 44 | #3,556 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,185 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,324 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,798 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,428 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,966 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,114 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,998 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,136 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,655 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,580 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,151 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,504 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,352 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,764 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,382 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,206 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,701 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,130 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,692 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,253 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,967 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,690 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,749 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,014 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gennesis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gennesis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gennesis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gennesis, and how old are they?
An estimated 677 Americans named Gennesis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 462 people named Gennesis (453 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 608 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.
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 Gennesis born?
The states with the most babies named Gennesis are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 153 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 62 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 36 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Gennesis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gennesis is most over-represented in California: since 1990 it was given 1.6 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 Gennesis 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 Gennesis?
Gennesis is a less common spelling of Genesis: SSA has recorded 684 Gennesis and 97,244 Genesis since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 100,605 babies since 1880, Gennesis is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,726 babies recorded by SSA was a Gennesis (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gennesis
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 Gennesis and names like it
- Compare Gennesis and GenesisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGennesis peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gennesis since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Gennesis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gennesis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.