Genny
Genny was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 1,299 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Genny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 43 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Genny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Genny is “a female given name, a diminutive of Genevieve, or occasionally a variant of Ginny or Jenny.”
/ˈd͡ʒɛni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Genny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,463, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1971, the peak
Genny peaked in 1971, when 47 girls were given it, #1,861 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #17,463 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,576 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,128 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,184 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,353 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,403 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,201 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,115 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,158 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,882 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 7 | #10,968 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,115 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,100 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,123 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,154 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,660 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,022 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,481 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,895 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,484 | 22.6 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,869 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,551 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,943 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,152 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,746 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,543 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,388 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,124 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,191 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,348 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,524 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,618 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,861 | 28.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,345 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,539 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,854 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,398 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,963 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,461 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,431 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,146 | 16.1 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,088 | 16.3 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,932 | 17.8 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,161 | 14.3 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,803 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,179 | 13.4 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,756 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,342 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,875 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,399 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,195 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,836 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,347 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,953 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,465 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,636 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,809 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,784 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,983 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,012 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,753 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,464 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,649 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,037 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,570 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,283 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,490 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,452 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,533 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,017 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,507 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,175 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genny, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,299 Americans ever recorded as Genny. The median Genny alive today is 53 years old; half are between 43 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,846 people named Genny (1,803 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 | 38 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 360 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 317 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 47 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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, Genny is the seventh most given (4.9% 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 Genny
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 Genny and names like it
- Compare Genny and GenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sGenny peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genny since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Genny.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Genny alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with GMost given first.