Genu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒˈɛnuː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Genu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 32Kas Gain(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 243Kas Gain
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 44K
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 Genu 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
41,623 named Gain
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gain in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 3 more.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Genu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 41,623as Gain | 1 in 32K | 42K | Gain | 80 |
| BD Bangladesh | #317 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gain | 38 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Gain | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,367as Gain | 1 in 243K | 11K | Gain | 225 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Gain | 32 |
| FR France | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 86 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 764 | 1 in 277K | 764 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Gain | 29 |
41,623 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Genu 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.
In Latin, a knee, kneejoint, kneepan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, The knee.
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.
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 16 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1969 | 16 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1959 | 16 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1977 | 15 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 15 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 14 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1961 | 13 | — |
Reference works 1
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Genu?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒˈɛnuː/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Genu a male or female name?
- Genu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Genu have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Gain, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Genu?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 764 people named Genu, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Genu compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Genu is the 317th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Genu?
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/genuThe 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, “Genu” — the 317th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.