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Genelle

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Genelle has been given to 1,756 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1981, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Genelle, 2023

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Genelle: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Genelle means

Genelle is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Genelle is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,756 girls were recorded with the name Genelle between 1904 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,536 in 1923.

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 Genelle?

Genelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Genelle 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Genelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Genelle was born before 1965 — so the typical Genelle is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
12.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,157
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 12.5% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Genelle 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 1981 (36)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,536
1923

Spellings of Genelle

Genelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 35.3% against Genelle's 1.1%.

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 Genelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Genelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 367,417 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Genelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Genelle around the world

Where Genelle 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.

  • Canada
    1994–2000
    #2,489
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1959–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Genelle 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
#1,536
1923
Peak year
1981
36 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,756
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Genelle

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

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Sibling names for Genelle

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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