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Genoveva

#12,335 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly kin, family + woman, wife

Genoveva has been given to 2,577 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #12,335 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Genoveva, 2025

1 in 474,000

Genoveva over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Genoveva: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly kin, family + woman, wife

Germanic languages

What Genoveva means

Genoveva may mean “kin, family + woman, wife”, associated with kunją and wībą.

Origin, language, and formation

Genoveva is used in Catalan, German and Portuguese. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Genoveva comes through Proto-Celtic *genos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Genevieve.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Genoveva is pronounced [ʒə.nuˈβe̞.βə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,577 girls were recorded with the name Genoveva between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1925; its best national rank was #873 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,574 in 2020 to #12,335 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,479 in 2015 to #12,335 in 2025.

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 Genoveva?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,335
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Genoveva 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genoveva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Genovevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Genoveva was born before 1948 — so the typical Genoveva is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,262
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1920s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Genoveva 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
−3,206
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,761
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,144
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.7%
Peak was 1925 (51)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#873
1894

Spellings of Genoveva

Genoveva is not the most common spelling — Geneva is, with 97.2% against Genoveva's 2.8%.

  • Geneva97.2%88,758
  • Genoveva2.8%2,577

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 Genoveva is used

Across 1910–2025, Genoveva was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 26,604 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5New York1 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. Genoveva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Genoveva around the world

Where Genoveva 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
    1931–1931
    #1,104
    in 1931

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

Notable people named Genoveva

People whose public names include Genoveva, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Genoveva in other languages

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

GenowefaGenevieveGenevievaGenevièveGenovaitė

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

Genoveva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,335
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,761
Best rank ever
#873
1894
Peak year
1925
51 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,577
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Genoveva

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

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Names with a curve like Genoveva

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

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Sibling names for Genoveva

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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