Géne
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Géne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”).
- USUnited States1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 3.8M
- GYGuyana1 in 39K
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)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
64,474 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gene in US United States, PA Panama, CL Chile and Gené in ES Spain.
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)
- GermanGen(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekγενεάgeneá“generation, descent”(measured from records)
From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication, from the last syllable of pangene.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Géne 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 | — | 64,474 | 1 in 5.2K | 62K | Gene | 225 |
| BR Brazil | — | 494 | 1 in 429K | 595 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 122 | 1 in 84K | 122 | — | 2 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 637K | 1 | Gene | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 1.1K | Gené | 71 |
| GY Guyana | — | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 18 | 1 in 105K | 20 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | — |
| PA Panama | #246 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Gene | 22 |
64,474 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Géne mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Géne a male or female name?
- Géne is a male 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 Géne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Géne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gene.
- Where is Géne most common?
- Géne is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Géne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 64,474 people named Géne in 2020, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Géne compared with other names?
- In Panama, Géne is the 246th most common given name of 24,657 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A9neThe 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, “Géne” — the 246th most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.