Geneveive
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Geneveive has been given to 250 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1916, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Geneveive, 2007
1 in 800,000
Geneveive 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Geneveive?
Geneveive had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Geneveive sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geneveive. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Geneveives were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Geneveive was born before 1921 — so the typical Geneveive is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 42.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (106).
Is Geneveive 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (18)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.7% average annual change
Spellings of Geneveive
Geneveive is not the most common spelling — Genevieve is, with 97.4% against Geneveive's 0.19%.
Geneveive around the world
Where Geneveive 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.
- South Australia1948–1957#581in 1957
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Geneveive by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Geneveive
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Geneveive
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.