Genesa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Genesa has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1980, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Genesa, 1985
1 in 595,000
Genesa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Genesa?
Genesa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1985
- 1 in 595,000
- 6 of 3,568,740 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1985
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 412,278 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Genesa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1985 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 412,278 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Genesas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Genesa was born before 1980 — so the typical Genesa is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 60.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 33
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 60.6% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Genesa 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (9)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Spellings of Genesa
Genesa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 62.4% against Genesa's <0.01%.
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.
Genesa around the world
Where Genesa 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 & Wales2020–2020#5,493in 2020
- Ireland2021–2021#883in 2021
- France2015–2024#7,380in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Genesa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Genesa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Genesa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.