Genoveva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Welsh Gwenhuifar, 'white wave' or 'white as sea foam'; variant of Ginebra
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Spain (INE): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/çenoβeβa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Genoveva is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.2K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 5.8K
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 Genoveva itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
51,136 named Genevieve, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)Welsh Gwenhuifar, 'white wave' or 'white as sea foam'; variant of Ginebra.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Genoveva, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Genoveva 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 | — | 51,136as Genevieve | 1 in 6.5K | 51K | Genoveva | 190 |
| MX Mexico | #372 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 438 | Genoveva | 115 |
| PE Peru | #524 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Genoveva | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Genoveva | 28 |
| AR Argentina | #613 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 5 | Genoveva | 51 |
| ES Spain | #891 | 5,485 | 1 in 9.1K | 5.8K | Genoveva | 102 |
| EC Ecuador | #321 | 2,008 | 1 in 8.4K | 2K | Genoveva | 24 |
| BG Bulgaria | #549 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Genoveva | 50 |
| GY Guyana | — | 124as Genevieve | 1 in 6K | 124 | — | — |
51,136 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling genevieve. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Genoveva is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Genevieve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from St. Genoveva/Feve
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ola blanca, como la espuma del mar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Mujer de origen ilustre
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In German, a female given name of rare current usage, equivalent to English Genevieve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Genoveva Ríosb. 1865BOBolivian hero (born 1865)
- Genoveva Torres Moralesb. 1870ESSpanish Roman Catholic nun and saint (1870-1956)
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Genoveva Matuteb. 1915PHFilipino writer (1915–2009)
- Geno Hartlaubb. 1915DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist, translator and writer (1915–2007)
- Daisy Avellanab. 1917PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress (1917-2013)
- Eva Forestb. 1928ESnot in their usual nameSpanish publisher and writer (1928-2007)
- Geno Machadob. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Genoveva Añonmab. 1987GQEquatorial Guinean association football player and manager
- Genoveva Umehb. 1995NGNigerian actress
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)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.2K | #3,378 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.8K | #415 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.5K | #828 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2K | #612 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 438 | #232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #3,378 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 5 | #2,738 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2021 | 2 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2022 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Genoveva mean, and where does it come from?
- Welsh Gwenhuifar, 'white wave' or 'white as sea foam'; variant of Ginebra. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Genoveva?
- In the etymology graph, Genevieve, Ginette and Geneviève are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Genoveva?
- In Spanish /çenoβeβa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Genoveva a male or female name?
- Genoveva is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Genoveva 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.
- How common is the name Genoveva?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,485 people named Genoveva, about 1 in 9.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Genoveva compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Genoveva is the 321st most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/genovevaThe 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, “Genoveva” — the 321st most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.