Genista
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Genista is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Genista is read
(measured from records)Genista is one spelling over 3 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.
- English69%
Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.7%
genista (plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Genista in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Genista 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.
English: modern name, a learned coinage taken from the Latin name of the broom plant, genesta , genista . It is from this word that the English royal dynasty of the Plantagenets took its name: the founder, Geoffrey Plantagenet (d. 1151) wore a sprig of broom (Latin planta genesta ) to distinguish himself in battle.
as a word
In Romanian, DROBÍȚĂ, drobițe, s. f. Mic arbust din familia leguminoaselor, cu frunze lanceolate și cu flori galbene, ale cărui ramuri, fierte în apă, dau o culoare galbenă, folosită la vopsit (Genista tinctoria).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Irbulenes
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #110 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Genista mean, and where does it come from?
- Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Genista a male or female name?
- Genista 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 Genista have the most bearers?
- Genista is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Genista”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.