Geno
Geno was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,728 among boys’ names; 3,725 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Geno and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 13 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geno by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Geno?
#2,728 among boys’ names, 2025
Geno fell from #2,392 in 2015 to #2,728 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 27.5 per million.
70 babies in 2023, the peak
Geno peaked in 2023, when 70 boys were given it, #2,102 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,728 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,765 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,102 | 40.9 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,335 | 34.9 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,236 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,479 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,157 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,588 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,327 | 30.3 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,446 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,392 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,282 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,408 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,569 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,866 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,698 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,775 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,643 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,774 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,419 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,914 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,802 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,285 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,834 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,500 | 20.1 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,145 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,209 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 48 | #1,995 | 25.1 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,070 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,261 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,782 | 25.7 |
| 1994 | 51 | #1,734 | 26.4 |
| 1993 | 53 | #1,662 | 27.0 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,701 | 25.0 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,870 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,758 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,076 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,740 | 20.9 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,076 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,976 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,187 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,253 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,039 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 34 | #1,711 | 18.7 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,826 | 17.3 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,504 | 23.0 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,543 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,095 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 36 | #1,552 | 21.9 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,761 | 18.5 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,675 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,599 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 34 | #1,477 | 21.8 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,191 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 36 | #1,424 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,560 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 34 | #1,384 | 19.0 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,107 | 26.5 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,049 | 28.1 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,379 | 17.4 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,535 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,134 | 23.1 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,601 | 12.3 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,127 | 22.7 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,225 | 19.8 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,346 | 16.4 |
| 1959 | 31 | #1,421 | 14.5 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,226 | 18.8 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,287 | 17.2 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,579 | 11.8 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,809 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,508 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,782 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,293 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,086 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,061 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,875 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,115 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,288 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,778 | 4.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,062 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,036 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,033 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,250 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,213 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,301 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,712 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,224 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,867 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,056 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,731 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,301 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,604 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,224 | 31.0 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,352 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,306 | 28.0 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,133 | 35.5 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,367 | 26.1 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,210 | 31.4 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,162 | 34.4 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,143 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,114 | 37.7 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,258 | 30.9 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,286 | 30.1 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,499 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,184 | 34.5 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,187 | 35.7 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,479 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,167 | 36.5 |
| 1914 | 35 | #940 | 53.5 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,277 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,382 | 30.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Geno a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geno has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Geno: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geno, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 3,725 Americans ever recorded as Geno. The median Geno alive today is 30 years old; half are between 13 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,630 people named Geno (64 women and girls, 2,566 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 314 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 469 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 569 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 693 |
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 Geno born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,733 | 0.8× |
Where Geno is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geno is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1912 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 boys’ 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 Geno 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 137,599 babies since 1880, Geno is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 110 babies (43%), again the second 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 Geno
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 Geno and names like it
- Compare Geno and GeneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGeno peaked in 2023.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geno since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Geno.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Geno alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.