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Geena

Girls' name

Variant of Gina

Geena has been given to 1,554 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Geena, 2017

1 in 447,000

Geena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geena: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geena means

Geena is a variant of Gina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Geena is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒiː.nə/ for Geena.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,554 girls were recorded with the name Geena between 1956 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,101 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Geena?

Geena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 447,000
8 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 216,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
309,934 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 309,934 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geena was born before 1995 — so the typical Geena is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
62.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,554
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Choose a decade

1990s — 62.2% of all recorded uses (966).

Is Geena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (163)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,101
1994

Spellings of Geena

Geena is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 15.0% against Geena's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Geena is used

Across 1910–2025, Geena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 137,921 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Geena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Geena around the world

Where Geena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #4,012
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    2002–2002
    #640
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    2002–2002
    #620
    in 2002
  • France
    1995–2002
    #4,087
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1995–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Geena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,101
1994
Peak year
1994
163 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,554
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Geena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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