Genowefa

Girls' name

Form of Geneviève

Genowefa has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1916, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Genowefa, 1921

1 in 333,000

Genowefa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Genowefa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Geneviève

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Genowefa means

Genowefa is a form of Geneviève.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Genowefa is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˌɡɛ.nɔ.ˈvɛ.fa/ for Genowefa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Genowefa → Geneviève. The family’s proposed meaning is “kin, family + woman, wife”, recorded in French with the source elements kunją and wībą.

Origin, language, and formation

Genowefa comes through Medieval Latin Genovefa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Geneviève and Genevieve.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Genowefa is pronounced /ɡɛ.nɔˈvɛ.fa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Genowefa between 1913 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,330 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Genowefa?

Genowefa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1921, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1921: 1 in 333,000; 7 of 2,334,460 births
Among girls only: 1 in 176,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1921: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 231,162 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Genowefa 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 1921 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 231,162 children born in 1921 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Genowefa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Genowefas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Genowefa was born before 1917 — so the typical Genowefa is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 80.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 80.0% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Genowefa 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: —; 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 1916 (13)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,330; 1914

Spellings of Genowefa

Genowefa is not the most common spelling — Genoveva is, with 96.4% against Genowefa's 3.6%.

Genoveva96.4%2,577
Genowefa3.6%95

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.

Genowefa around the world

Where Genowefa 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
1924–1939
#1,206
in 1939
South Australia
1947–1955
#502
in 1955

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Genowefa 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: #2,330; 1914
Peak year: 1916; 13 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 1921
All-time count: 95
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Genowefa

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

Geneviene Genavive Genysis Genovia Genecis Geneveve Gentri Gennette Genaveve Gennetta Genelda Genasis Gennett Geniene Genesia Geniece Gentrie Genesys Generose Genessa Gennieve Genesiss Geneieve Geniyah

Sibling names for Genowefa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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