Gennady
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəˈnɑdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gennady is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 382as Геннадій(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 419as Геннадий
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 794as Геннадий
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gennady itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #240 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 named Геннадий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Геннадий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 2 more, Геннадій in UA Ukraine and Gennadij in LV Latvia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gennady 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #60 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | #28 | Геннадий | 190 |
| UA Ukraine | #70 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | — | Геннадій | 71 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #86 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 794 | 1.7K | Геннадий | 48 |
| BY Belarus | #64 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 17 | Геннадий | 34 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #778 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Геннадий | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #232 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Геннадий | 13 |
| LV Latvia | — | 172 | 1 in 11K | 172 | Gennadij | 14 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
- Gennadi Gerasimovb. 1930RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian diplomat (1930-2010)
- Gennady Rozhdestvenskyb. 1931RURussian conductor and composer (1931-2018)
- Gennady Yanayevb. 1937RUvice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991
- Gennadi Strekalovb. 1940RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian cosmonaut and Ashoka Chakra recipient (1940–2004)
- Gennady Zyuganovb. 1944RUGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Gennady Khazanovb. 1945RUSoviet and Russian actor and comedian
- Hyenadz Navitskib. 1949BYnot in their usual name5th Prime Minister of Belarus 2001–2003
- Gennady Timchenkob. 1952AMRussian businessman and billionaire
- Gennady Padalkab. 1958RURussian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonaut
- Genndy Tartakovskyb. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian-American cinema and television animator, director and 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 172 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Gennady?
- In the etymology graph, Gennadiy, Gennadi and Ghenadie are forms of the same name in other languages; Gena and Genya are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Gennady?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəˈnɑdi/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Gennady a male or female name?
- Gennady is a male 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 Gennady have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 338 thousand people named Геннадий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gennady most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gennady is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gennady?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 172 people named Gennady, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Gennady compared with other names?
- In Russia, Gennady is the 60th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gennady?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gennadyThe 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, “Gennady” — the 60th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.