Génois

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Genoese, Genovese, Genoan (of, from or relating to the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy)

Génois is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Derived

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Genoese, Genovese, Genoan (of, from or relating to the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Génois counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Génois is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
FR France—47—
PL Poland—2—
US United States—listed—

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Génois is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Genois

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Genois

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Génois 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 French, altération de Gesnouin, du nom germanique Gernwin

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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)

1850190019502000Lucien Génois, b. 1880Normand Génois, b. 1945Agathe Génois, b. 1952Michel Genois, b. 1968

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 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Génois
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#330,435
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#331,448

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 Génois mean, and where does it come from?
Genoese, Genovese, Genoan (of, from or relating to the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Génois have the most bearers?
Génois is most frequently recorded in France.

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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, “Génois”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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