Ginevra

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ginevra is read●(measured from records)

Ginevra 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.

• Italian53%

  Geneva (a city in Switzerland)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Nome celtico, passato tramite i romanzi della Tavola Rotonda; forse forma femminile di Ginepro, o nome autonomo.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  ?iome celtico (Gu~inccer)ilai romanzi ciella T a r o l : ~ Rotontla. Forse il fraocescano Gi~icprui. lo stesso noiiic fatto ni.zschilc. L'ogt~. Giuriipero (trovato a 'Torino).

  as a name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

• English26%

  A female given name from Italian, variant of Guinevere.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French6.4%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ginevra 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Ginevra 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.

• Spirito luminoso

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• Italian form of GENEVIÈVE , now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world.

  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)

• Ginevra d'Esteb. 1419IT(1419-1440)
• Ginevra Sforzab. 1440ITItalian noble
• Ginevra de' Bencib. 1457FRFlorentine aristocrat
• Ginevra Cantofolib. 1618ITItalian painter (1618-1672)
• Ginevra Kingb. 1898USAmerican socialite (1898–1980)
• Ginevra Bompianib. 1939ITItalian writer
• Ginevra Elkannb. 1979ITItalian film director
• Ginevra De Carolisb. 1985ITItalian costume designer
• Ginevra Taddeuccib. 1997ITItalian swimmer
• Ginevra Francesconib. 2003ITItalian actress and model

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).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Ginevra?

A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒinevra/ (IPA) for Italian.

What does the name Ginevra mean, and where does it come from?

Geneva (a city in Switzerland) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Ginevra have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Ginevra in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ginevra.

How common is the name Ginevra?

In the United States, the national register counted 383 people named Ginevra in 2020, about 1 in 869 thousand residents.

What are other forms of the name Ginevra?

In the etymology graph, Jennifer, Jenny and Jennie are forms of the same name in other languages.

Is Ginevra a male or female name?

Ginevra 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.