Genre
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: kind (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ʒɑ̃ʁ/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Genre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 93K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 160K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
≈730 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Genre
- French:/ʒɑ̃ʁ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/xenɾe/(machine-generated) model-generated
- English:/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Genre is read
(measured from records)Genre 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.
- French43%
kind
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Genre in Spanish.
- English21%
A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Genre is found
(measured from records)Genre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 47 | Genre | 154 |
| AR Argentina | 284 | 1 in 160K | 284 | — | — |
| US United States | 138 | 1 in 2.4M | 158 | Genre | 35 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | Genre | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Genre | 6 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Genre is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative spelling of sjanger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, kind, type, genre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, gender
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)- Ermanno Genreb. 1943ITItalian Waldensian pastor and theologian (1943-)
- Andrea Genreb. 1970ITProfessor of Plant Science, University of Turin
- Julien Genreb. 1989ITItalian male curler
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Genre come from?
- A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Genre?
- In the etymology graph, Genus and Gender are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Genre?
- It depends on the language: in French /ʒɑ̃ʁ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /xenɾe/; in English /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Genre mean?
- In French, kind
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Genre?
- Mondonomo estimates about 734 people named Genre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genre. After it come Argentina, United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Genre?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 284 people named Genre, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Genre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/genreThe 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, “Genre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.