Genovéva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Genevieve
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Genovéva is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 8.4K
- ESSpain1 in 9.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
6,262 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Genoveva in US United States.
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)a female given name, equivalent to English Genevieve
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Genovéva 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 | 6,262 | 1 in 53K | 6.2K | Genoveva | 4 |
| ES Spain | 5,485 | 1 in 9.1K | 5.8K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 3,066 | 1 in 69K | 4.5K | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | 2,199 | 1 in 13K | 2.2K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 2,008 | 1 in 8.4K | 2K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 717 | 1 in 24K | 668 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 406 | 1 in 8.3K | 406 | — | — |
6,262 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 — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Genoveva Ríosb. 1865BOBolivian hero (born 1865)
- Genoveva Torres Moralesb. 1870ESSpanish Roman Catholic nun and saint (1870-1956)
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Genoveva Matuteb. 1915PHFilipino writer (1915–2009)
- Geno Hartlaubb. 1915DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist, translator and writer (1915–2007)
- Daisy Avellanab. 1917PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress (1917-2013)
- Eva Forestb. 1928ESnot in their usual nameSpanish publisher and writer (1928-2007)
- Geno Machadob. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Genoveva Añonmab. 1987GQEquatorial Guinean association football player and manager
- Genoveva Umehb. 1995NGNigerian actress
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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 Genovéva mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Genevieve Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Genovéva a male or female name?
- Genovéva 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 Genovéva have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Genovéva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genoveva.
- Where is Genovéva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Genovéva is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 8.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Genovéva?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,262 people named Genovéva in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Genovéva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/genov%C3%A9vaThe 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, “Genovéva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.