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Gennady

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Gennadiy

Gennady has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2018, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Gennady, 2022

1 in 423,000

Gennady over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gennady: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Gennadiy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gennady means

Gennady is a alternate transcription of Gennadiy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gennady is used in Russian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɡʲɪ.ˈna.dʲɪj/ for Gennady.

Origin, language, and formation

Gennady is used in English.

Gennady comes through Russian Генна́дий.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gennadiy and Генна́дий.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 83 boys were recorded with the name Gennady between 2015 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,513 in 2018.

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 Gennady?

Gennady had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 423,000
8 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 218,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gennady 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 2022 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 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gennady. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gennadys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gennady was born before 2018 — so the typical Gennady is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
78.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
83
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Gennady 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 2018 (22)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,513
2018

Spellings of Gennady

Gennady is not the most common spelling — Kennedy is, with 74.0% against Gennady's 0.82%.

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 Gennady is used

Across 1910–2025, Gennady was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,705,342 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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

Gennady around the world

Where Gennady 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
    2024–2024
    #5,462
    in 2024

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

Gennady by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,513
2018
Peak year
2018
22 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
83
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gennady

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

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Sibling names for Gennady

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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