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Genaro

#2,268 in 2025Boys' name

Devoted to Janus, through Genaro

Genaro has been given to 7,669 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #2,268 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Genaro, 2025

1 in 53,500

Genaro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Genaro: meaning, origin, and history

Devoted to Janus, through Genaro

Spanish

What Genaro means

Genaro belongs to the name family reached through Genaro → Genaro. Its meaning is “devoted to Janus”.

Origin, language, and formation

Genaro is used in Cebuano and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Genaro comes through Spanish Genaro.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Genaro.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Genaro is pronounced /heˈnaɾo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,669 boys were recorded with the name Genaro between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 2000; its best national rank was #840 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,478 in 2020 to #2,268 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,138 in 2015 to #2,268 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Genaro?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 27,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,268
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Genaro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genaro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Genaros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Genaro was born before 1986 — so the typical Genaro is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,293
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2000s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (1,274).

Is Genaro 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
+163
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−130
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.8%
Peak was 2000 (152)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#840
1936

Spellings of Genaro

Genaro is not the most common spelling — Gerard is, with 37.9% against Genaro's 4.9%.

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 Genaro is used

Across 1910–2025, Genaro was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 15,384 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,762
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 20,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Genaro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Genaro around the world

Where Genaro 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.

  • France
    1927–2024
    #3,714
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Genaro

People whose public names include Genaro, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Genaro in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Genaro. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanusJenaroGennaroGianuario

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Genaro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,268
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 210
Best rank ever
#840
1936
Peak year
2000
152 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,669
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Genaro

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

GennaroGentryLazaroGenesisAlvaroGenoGeneralJenaroGeneGenevaGentleGennieAlbaroGumaroAmaroGenieGenuineCordaroKotaroLautaroGenardKentaroBulmaroGennady

Names with a curve like Genaro

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Genaro, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Genaro

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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