Gènesis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gènesis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 50th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”).
- ECEcuador1 in 297(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 530
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 297 (inferred from the name graph)
62,795 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Genesis in VE Venezuela, US United States, EC Ecuador and 3 more and Génesis in PA Panama.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latingenesis“generation“generation, nativity”(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekγένεσιςgénesis“origin, source, beginning”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gènesis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 62,795 | 1 in 5.3K | 61K | Genesis | 342 |
| EC Ecuador | #192 | 56,913 | 1 in 297 | 57K | Genesis | 46 |
| VE Venezuela | #117 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 530 | — | Genesis | 74 |
| PH Philippines | #859 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Genesis | 103 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Genesis | 50 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #50 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 868 | Genesis | 44 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 4,916 | 1 in 1K | 4.9K | — | 39 |
| PA Panama | #416 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 3 | Génesis | 38 |
62,795 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gènesis mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Gènesis a male or female name?
- Gènesis is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gènesis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 63 thousand people named Gènesis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genesis.
- Where is Gènesis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gènesis is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 297 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gènesis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 62,795 people named Gènesis in 2020, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Gènesis compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Gènesis is the 50th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A8nesisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gènesis” — the 50th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.