Génesis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Génesis 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: Cobijo, sombra.
- 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Genesis in VE Venezuela, US United States, EC Ecuador and 3 more.
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)
Cobijo, sombra
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Génesis 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Génesis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Genesis (the book of the Bible)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Génesis Reascob. 1950ECEcuadorian wrestler
- Génesis Rodríguezb. 1987USAmerican actress (b. 1987)
- Genesis Davilab. 1990USbeauty pageant titleholder
- Génesis Carmonab. 1991VEVenezuelan fashion model, beauty queen, and college student who was killed while protesting against the Government of Venezuela
- Génesis Rodríguezb. 1994VEweightlifter born 1994
- Génesis Romerob. 1995VEVenezuelan athlete
- Génesis Cabrerab. 1996DODominican baseball player
- Génesis Casierrab. 1997ECEcuadorian association football player
- Génesis Valentínb. 1998USbadminton player
- Génesis Pérezb. 2005CRCosta Rican footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2022 | 902 | #13 |
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2023 | 868 | #12 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 3 | #854 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Génesis mean, and where does it come from?
- Cobijo, sombra Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- Is Génesis a male or female name?
- Génesis 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 Génesis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 63 thousand people named Génesis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genesis.
- Where is Génesis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Génesis 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 Génesis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 62,795 people named Génesis in 2020, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Génesis compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Génesis is the 50th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A9nesisThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Génesis” — the 50th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.