Genesis
#66 for girls in 2025, 3,527 births · #1,305 for boys in 2025, 149 births
Given to girls 96.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 4,306 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 18 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 93,578since 1964
Genesis over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #66 | 3,527 | #1,305 | 149 |
| 2024 | #55 | 3,849 | #1,145 | 183 |
| 2023 | #57 | 3,663 | #1,053 | 206 |
| 2022 | #65 | 3,448 | #1,049 | 210 |
| 2021 | #75 | 3,345 | #968 | 230 |
| 2020 | #62 | 3,692 | #822 | 279 |
| 2019 | #58 | 4,031 | #897 | 244 |
| 2018 | #57 | 4,099 | #981 | 211 |
| 2017 | #56 | 4,274 | #1,575 | 103 |
| 2016 | #58 | 4,351 | #1,618 | 99 |
| 2015 | #65 | 4,168 | #1,677 | 93 |
| 2014 | #68 | 4,170 | #2,116 | 65 |
| 2013 | #55 | 4,306 | #1,794 | 80 |
| 2012 | #56 | 4,309 | #1,891 | 76 |
| 2011 | #81 | 3,513 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 2010 | #89 | 3,303 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #83 | 3,669 | #1,809 | 82 |
| 2008 | #95 | 3,523 | #1,874 | 77 |
| 2007 | #140 | 2,486 | #2,185 | 61 |
| 2006 | #169 | 2,088 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | #155 | 2,224 | #1,889 | 67 |
| 2004 | #184 | 1,858 | #2,102 | 56 |
| 2003 | #218 | 1,493 | #1,870 | 63 |
| 2002 | #228 | 1,372 | #1,851 | 61 |
| 2001 | #224 | 1,418 | #2,050 | 51 |
| 2000 | #247 | 1,303 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #254 | 1,244 | #1,710 | 61 |
| 1998 | #260 | 1,185 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #256 | 1,147 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #282 | 1,028 | #2,115 | 40 |
| 1995 | #333 | 796 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #270 | 1,042 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #431 | 582 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #373 | 686 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #434 | 584 | #1,952 | 39 |
| 1990 | #589 | 391 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #643 | 322 | #1,567 | 51 |
| 1988 | #758 | 247 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #1,098 | 138 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #1,785 | 64 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #1,680 | 69 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #1,771 | 61 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #1,715 | 63 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #2,028 | 51 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #2,043 | 51 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #1,917 | 54 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #1,824 | 55 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #2,666 | 31 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #2,321 | 35 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Genesis! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Genesis
- 11 spots since 2024 (#55 → #66)
- 4 spots since 2020 (#62 → #66)
- 1 spot since 2015 (#65 → #66)
- Biggest jump: 340 spots in 1988 (#1,098 → #758)
- Biggest drop: 63 spots in 1995 (#270 → #333)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2013 at #55 (4,306 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1988–2025
- Highest: 1 in 404 girls born in 2017 were named Genesis (0.25%)
- Latest: 1 in 456 girls born in 2025 (0.22%)
- Its best rank, #55 in 2013, was only 1 in 408 (0.25%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.3% of all girls named Genesis (40,524) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #5,974 (1969) | #6,371 |
| 1970s | 278 | #1,824 (1978) | #3,354 |
| 1980s | 1,121 | #643 (1989) | #1,544 |
| 1990s | 8,685 | #254 (1999) | #348 |
| 2000s | 21,434 | #83 (2009) | #174 |
| 2010s | 40,524 | #55 (2013) | #64 |
| 2020s | 21,524 | #55 (2024) | #63 |
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.
Genesis in 1964
Top girls' names in 1964
More about 1964
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1,894,855 girls got a published name in 1964; 1 in 378,971 of them was named Genesis, which outranked 13.3% of the 7,806 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,039 names at #6,767; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.