Geneva

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Geneva is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 2 Of recent origin and uncertain derivation: possibly a variant of Jennifer.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • GHGhana≈1 in 6.6K
  • CNChina≈1 in 7.6K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈180,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
399 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Ghana, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GenevaLatin(measured from records)
ג'נאביבHebrew(measured from records)
เจนีวาThai(measured from records)

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)

2 Of recent origin and uncertain derivation: possibly a variant of Jennifer. In form it coincides with the name of the 97 city in Switzerland (compare Florence and ) Venetia). It may alternatively have been intended as a short form of Genevieve. this name that the generic term Geordie for a Tynesider derives.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Geneva 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.

Where Geneva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈180,000 est.≈1 in 7.6K—Geneva6
US United States27,6091 in 12K28KGeneva399
GB United Kingdom≈4,600 est.≈1 in 14KlistedGeneva78
GH Ghana≈4,400 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Geneva8
EG Egypt≈4,400 est.≈1 in 24K—Geneva9
CA Canada≈2,800 est.≈1 in 14K2Geneva104
GY Guyana601 in 13K60—3

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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Geneva is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, France

    Languages: Portuguese, French, Spanish

    Also written Généva, Genéva, Géneva, Gènèva, Genèva

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia

    Also written Генева, Женева, Zeneva

  • Malay name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Also written Jenewa

  • Russian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Женева, Генева, Женёва, Дженева, Zheneva

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Genewa

47 further groups 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)

Geneva is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, city, lake. Switzerland: US pi name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • English: of recent origin and uncertain derivation. In form it coincides with the city in Switzerland (cf. FLORENCE and VENETIA ), but it may rather have been intended as a Latinate short form of GENEVIÈVE .

    as a word

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)

1850190019502000Gene Stratton-Porter, b. 1863Herma Albertson Baggley, b. 1896Gene Kloss, b. 1903Geneva Mitchell, b. 1905Geneva Duker, b. 1905Geneva G. Belford, b. 1932Geneva Gay, b. 1945Geneva Cruz, b. 1976Geneva Locke, b. 1988Geneva Coulter, b. 1999

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 48 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Geneva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028K#1,324
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010252#76,275
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000248#72,905
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020241#83,936
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025125—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202560#534
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202051#1,324
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201020—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199718—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199518—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201917—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200917—

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

Where does the name Geneva come from?
2 Of recent origin and uncertain derivation: possibly a variant of Jennifer. In form it coincides with the name of the 97 city in Switzerland (compare Florence and ) Venetia). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
What does the name Geneva mean?
Recorded meaning: 2 Of recent origin and uncertain derivation: possibly a variant of Jennifer.
In which country does Geneva have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 183 thousand people named Geneva in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geneva.
How common is the name Geneva?
In the United States, the national register counted 27,609 people named Geneva in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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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, “Geneva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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