Genevieve
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Germanic genos + wefa, 'race' + 'woman'; St Genevieve
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Genevieve is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 88th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 3K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.7K
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
- 472 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
51,136 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From Germanic genos + wefa, 'race' + 'woman'; St Genevieve.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Genevieve is read(measured from records)
Genevieve 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.
- English61%
Genghis Khan [Temujin]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Mongol leader
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French29%
From Germanic genos + wefa, 'race' + 'woman'; St Genevieve.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du vieux germanique, probablement « race, clan » + « femme ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Nom issu du germanique *Kenowefa*; sainte Geneviève de Paris, fêtée le 3 janvier.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Genevieve 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 | #718 | 51,136 | 1 in 6.5K | 51K | Genevieve | 472 |
| FR France | #242 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 186K | Genevieve | 314 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Genevieve | 32 |
| PH Philippines | #762 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Genevieve | 105 |
| CA Canada | #361 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 7 | Genevieve | 224 |
| CM Cameroon | #273 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Genevieve | 20 |
| AU Australia | #525 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 7 | Genevieve | 197 |
| CU Cuba | #88 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Genevieve | 4 |
51,136 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)
- Genovevab. 423FRnot in their usual namePatron saint of Paris
- Genevieve Tobinb. 1899USAmerican actress (1899-1995)
- Genevieve O'Reillyb. 1977IEIrish actress (born 1977)
- Genevieve Nnajib. 1979NGNigerian actress, producer, and director
- Genevieve Corteseb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Genevieve Angelsonb. 1987USAmerican actor, film actor and television actor
- Genevieve Buechnerb. 1991CACanadian actress
- Genevieve Gauntb. 1991GBDutch-British actress
- Katie Ledeckyb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican Olympic swimmer
- Genevieve Hanneliusb. 1998USAmerican actress and singer
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 72 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51K | #884 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 61 | #884 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 55 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 7 | #583 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2015 | 7 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1994 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1976 | 1 | — |
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 are other forms of the name Genevieve?
- In the etymology graph, Genoveva, Ginette and Geni are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Genevieve mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic genos + wefa, 'race' + 'woman'; St Genevieve. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Genevieve a male or female name?
- Genevieve 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 Genevieve have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Genevieve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genevieve.
- How common is the name Genevieve?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,136 people named Genevieve in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Genevieve compared with other names?
- In the United States, Genevieve is the 718th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/genevieveThe 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, “Genevieve” — the 718th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.