Genova
#13,781 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Genova has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #13,781 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Genova, 2025
1 in 553,000
Genova 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Genova?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,781
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Genova sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genova. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Genovas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Genova was born before 1967 — so the typical Genova is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 24.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 140
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (62).
Is Genova 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
- −6,746
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,987
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,564
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.6%
- Peak was 1991 (19)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.9% average annual change
Spellings of Genova
Genova is not the most common spelling — Geneva is, with 42.0% against Genova's 0.12%.
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 Genova is used
Across 1910–2025, Genova was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 889,599 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Genova has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Genova by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Genova
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Genova
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.