Genova
Genova was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,781 among girls’ names; 251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genova by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Genova?
#13,781 among girls’ names, 2025
Genova fell from #12,217 in 2015 to #13,781 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
19 babies in 1991, the peak
Genova peaked in 1991, when 19 girls were given it, #5,048 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,781 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,035 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,537 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,256 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,169 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,794 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,388 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,385 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,217 | 4.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,152 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 13 | #6,778 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,048 | 10.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,280 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,798 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,067 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,528 | 2.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,918 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,630 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,489 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,615 | 6.3 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,989 | 5.7 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,146 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,381 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,000 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,797 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,702 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,979 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,999 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,635 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,879 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,706 | 4.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,383 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genova a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genova has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genova: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genova, and how old are they?
An estimated 150 Americans named Genova and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 303 people named Genova (286 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 93,975 babies since 1880, Genova is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 138 babies (4.3%), the third most given that year.
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.
More about Genova and names like it
- Compare Genova and GenevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGenova peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genova since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Genova.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Genova alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.