Genese

Last seen for girls in 2006 at #17,168

Peak · girls
1980 · 101 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
381
since 1923

Genese over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Genese has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #1,273, 1980girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2006#17,1685
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1990#12,9585
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1988#9,2447
1987#11,3255
1986#10,9125
1985#9,3076
1984#10,4225
1983#7,3128
1982#6,8889
1981#3,34025
1980#1,273101
1979#10,2105
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1967#4,9828
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1964#6,0096
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First appearance
1923

The first year at least five girls were named Genese! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1923–1933, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Genese is popular in 1923

No state had 5 or more girls named Genese in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Genese
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2006
Rise & fade · girls
57 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1923
  • Peaked 1980 at #1,273 (101 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,439
  • Highest: 1 in 16,439 girls born in 1980 were named Genese (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 380,242 girls born in 2006 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 44.9% of all girls named Genese (171) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s10#4,570 (1929)#4,769
1930s14#3,159 (1934)#3,480
1940s11#4,196 (1943)#4,308
1950s66#3,490 (1954)#4,738
1960s76#2,989 (1960)#5,201
1970s18#6,558 (1972)#7,946
1980s171#1,273 (1980)#7,780
1990s10#12,958 (1990)#13,238
2000s5#17,168 (2006)#17,168

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Genese in 1923

girls
#4,967
5 births · 1 in 241,273 girls

Top girls' names in 1923

  1. #1Mary71,634
  2. #2Dorothy39,043
  3. #3Helen31,486
  4. #4Margaret26,134
  5. #5Betty25,989
  6. #6Ruth23,637
  7. #7Virginia18,325
  8. #8Mildred15,989
  9. #9Elizabeth15,459
  10. #10Frances14,881
  11. #4,967Genese5
More about 1923

girls

1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 241,273 of them was named Genese, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Genese
  1. #4,376Zoma6
  2. #4,376Zonia6
  3. #4,376Zorka6
  4. #4,967Genese5
  5. #4,967Adala5
  6. #4,967Adelma5
  7. #4,967Adia5

Tied with 772 names at #4,967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,834Eris#2,291 → #457
  2. ↑ 619Penny#1,508 → #889
  3. ↑ 317Laurene#1,309 → #992
  4. ↑ 310Cruz#1,103 → #793
  5. ↑ 306Dorene#1,207 → #901
Fallers
  1. ↓ 321Veva#962 → #1,283
  2. ↓ 318Arlie#949 → #1,267
  3. ↓ 305Gaynell#978 → #1,283
  4. ↓ 303Trinidad#449 → #752
  5. ↓ 300Laurine#897 → #1,197

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1923 →