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Gennie

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gennie has been given to 2,740 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1928, with 50 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Gennie, 2002

1 in 747,000

Gennie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Gennie over time

In 2002, Gennie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18842002

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Gennie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gennie means

Gennie is a given name.

The naming story behind Gennie

Wikidata records Gennie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q139763463, 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, 2,541 girls were recorded with the name Gennie between 1884 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1928; its best national rank was #757 in 1884.

In the United States, 199 boys were recorded with the name Gennie between 1902 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,201 in 1902.

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 Gennie?

Gennie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gennie 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gennie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gennies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gennie was born before 1938 — so the typical Gennie is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
867
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1920s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Gennie 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 1928 (50)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#757
1884

Spellings of Gennie

Gennie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 22.1% against Gennie's 0.16%.

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 Gennie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Gennie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 48,191 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
  2. 2Alabama1 in 16,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Gennie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Gennie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Gennie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 702,314 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2Mississippi1 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. Gennie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gennie 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
#757
1884
Peak year
1928
50 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
2,541
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,201
1902
Peak year
1924
13 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
1960
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gennie

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

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Names with a curve like Gennie

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

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Sibling names for Gennie

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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