Genoveva
Genoveva was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,335 among girls’ names; 2,577 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Genoveva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 32 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Genoveva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Genoveva mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Genoveva is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Genevieve” Its etymology gives the senses “kin, family” (*kunją) and “woman, wife” (*wībą) and “family, clan” (*genos).
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Genovefa, Genoveva, possibly either of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“kin, family”) + *wībą (“woman, wife”), or of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *genos (“family, clan”).
/ʒe.noˈvɛ.vɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Genoveva?
#12,335 among girls’ names, 2025
Genoveva rose from #13,479 in 2015 to #12,335 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
51 babies in 1925, the peak
Genoveva peaked in 1925, when 51 girls were given it, #1,068 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,335 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,129 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,604 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,559 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,805 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,574 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,903 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,410 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,202 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,727 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,479 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,165 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,516 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,805 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,922 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,914 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,940 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,068 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,103 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,891 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,482 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,581 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,690 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,547 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,354 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,073 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,383 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,544 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,598 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,049 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,771 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,094 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,756 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,558 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,040 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,632 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,637 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,691 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,460 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,580 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,920 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,032 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,999 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,681 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,198 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,541 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,953 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,673 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,947 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,573 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,212 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,861 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,853 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,768 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,618 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,729 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,145 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,997 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,536 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,420 | 14.8 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,309 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,944 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,502 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,224 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,876 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,932 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,791 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,860 | 17.4 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,592 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,343 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,891 | 16.4 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,202 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,091 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,352 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,269 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,281 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,165 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,873 | 15.3 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,871 | 15.2 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,253 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,845 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,716 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,718 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,821 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,666 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,157 | 35.0 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,697 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,898 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,429 | 25.4 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,425 | 26.0 |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,126 | 37.2 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,224 | 32.6 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,271 | 31.7 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,576 | 22.5 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,168 | 35.7 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,169 | 36.4 |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,111 | 39.4 |
| 1928 | 51 | #1,054 | 44.2 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,112 | 39.4 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,231 | 33.7 |
| 1925 | 51 | #1,068 | 41.9 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,265 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,311 | 29.8 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,175 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,448 | 26.0 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,198 | 34.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,496 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,617 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,243 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,759 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,493 | 24.4 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,507 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,491 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,444 | 26.9 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,405 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,461 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,245 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,295 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,241 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,256 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,116 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,021 | 47.2 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,775 | 20.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,696 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,206 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,442 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,162 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 14 | #876 | 59.9 |
| 1894 | 13 | #873 | 58.3 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,512 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,343 | 28.3 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,356 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,358 | 28.0 |
| 1885 | 6 | #970 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Genoveva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Genoveva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 134 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Genoveva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Genoveva, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 53% of the 2,577 Americans ever recorded as Genoveva. The median Genoveva alive today is 52 years old; half are between 32 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 6,262 people named Genoveva (6,242 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 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 | 143 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 339 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 326 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 178 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 129 |
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 Genoveva born?
The states with the most babies named Genoveva are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,281 | not ranked | 8.0× |
| California | 278 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Mexico | 53 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| New York | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Genoveva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Genoveva is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 8.0 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 Genoveva 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 91,948 babies since 1880, Genoveva is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 138 babies (5.1%), 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 Genoveva
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 Genoveva and names like it
- Compare Genoveva and GenevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGenoveva peaked in 1925.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Genoveva since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Genoveva: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Genoveva.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Genoveva alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.