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Genna

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Genna has been given to 3,032 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1986, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Genna, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Genna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Genna means

Genna is a given name.

The naming story behind Genna

Wikidata records Genna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q114653816, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,032 girls were recorded with the name Genna between 1934 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 144 in 1986; its best national rank was #1,050 in 1986.

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 Genna?

Genna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Genna 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Genna was born before 1992 — so the typical Genna is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,015
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (891).

Is Genna 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (144)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,050
1986

Spellings of Genna

Genna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.6% against Genna's 0.07%.

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 Genna is used

Across 1910–2025, Genna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 93,719 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. 2Michigan1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 100,000

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. Genna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Genna around the world

Where Genna 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
    1980–1998
    #558
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    1985–1985
    #456
    in 1985
  • France
    1985–2025
    #2,350
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2004
    #2,405
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1985–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Genna in other languages

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

GenaJenna

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

Genna 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
#1,050
1986
Peak year
1986
144 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,032
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Genna

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

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Names with a curve like Genna

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

JenaeKateyAleishaDenaeJacobKeraChassityYaniraNishaLaceeBethanieRaechel

Sibling names for Genna

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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