Genévieve
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Genévieve is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 51,136 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In Cuba it is the 88th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Geneviève (patron saint of Paris), from Latin Genovefa, Genoveva, possibly either of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“kin, family”) + *wībą (“woman, wife”). Genévieve is also written Женевьева in Cyrillic.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2.7Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Genévieve itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 472 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
51,136 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Genévieve in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Genevieve in US United States, FR France, CA Canada and 5 more and Geneviève in BE Belgium.
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)- FrenchGenevièvepatron saint of Paris(measured from records)
- LatinGenovefa(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*kunją“kin“kin, family”(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*genos“family“family, clan”(measured from records)
Borrowed from French Geneviève (patron saint of Paris), from 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”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Genévieve 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 | #718 | 51,136 | 1 in 6.5K | 51K | Genevieve | 472 |
| FR France | #242 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 186K | Genevieve | 314 |
| PH Philippines | #762 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Genevieve | 105 |
| CA Canada | #361 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 7 | Genevieve | 224 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Genevieve | 45 |
| CM Cameroon | #273 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Genevieve | 20 |
| AU Australia | #525 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 7 | Genevieve | 197 |
| BE Belgium | #522 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 6 | Geneviève | 73 |
| CU Cuba | #88 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Genevieve | 4 |
51,136 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Genévieve mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Geneviève (patron saint of Paris), from Latin Genovefa, Genoveva, possibly either of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“kin, family”) + *wībą (“woman, wife”)… Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Genévieve a male or female name?
- Genévieve 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Genévieve?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Genévieve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genevieve. After it come France, Philippines, Canada and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Genévieve?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,136 people named Genévieve in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Genévieve compared with other names?
- In the United States, Genévieve is the 718th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gen%C3%A9vieveThe 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, “Genévieve” — ranked 884th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.