Genesis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Genesis 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. In Spanish, recorded as Sega Genesis.
- 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 Génesis in PA Panama.
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)
The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Genesis is read(measured from records)
Genesis is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish69%
Sega Genesis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Old Testament book
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Genesis 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)
Genesis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, synonym of Första Moseboken (“Genesis”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, genesis: the origin, start, or point at which something comes into being
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament
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)
- Genesis P-Orridgeb. 1950GBBritish artist, musician and writer (1950–2020)
- Génesis Reascob. 1950ECEcuadorian wrestler
- Genesis Skyeb. 1984USAmerican pornographic actress
- Génesis Rodríguezb. 1987USAmerican actress (b. 1987)
- Tommy Genesisb. 1990CACanadian rapper, model and singer
- Génesis Carmonab. 1991VEVenezuelan fashion model, beauty queen, and college student who was killed while protesting against the Government of Venezuela
- Génesis Cabrerab. 1996DODominican baseball player
- Genesis the Greykidb. 2000USpoet artist
- Génesis Pérezb. 2005CRCosta Rican footballer
- Genesis Timotiusfilm producer
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 63 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 61K | #784 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 57K | #15 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.9K | #154 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #784 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 534 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 149 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Genesis a male or female name?
- Genesis 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.
- Where does the name Genesis come from?
- The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Genesis mean?
- In Spanish, Sega Genesis
- In which country does Genesis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 63 thousand people named Genesis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genesis.
- Where is Genesis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Genesis 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 Genesis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 62,795 people named Genesis in 2020, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Genesis compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Genesis is the 50th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Genesis?
- In the etymology graph, Jenesis is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Genesis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/genesisThe same 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), 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, “Genesis” — the 50th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.