Genna
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 144 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,032since 1934
Genna over time
Rank among girls' names. Genna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 |
| 2004 | #2,652 | 62 |
| 2003 | #2,243 | 76 |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 |
| 2001 | #2,096 | 79 |
| 2000 | #1,985 | 84 |
| 1999 | #1,999 | 78 |
| 1998 | #1,977 | 76 |
| 1997 | #1,983 | 72 |
| 1996 | #1,767 | 84 |
| 1995 | #1,787 | 80 |
| 1994 | #1,649 | 91 |
| 1993 | #1,763 | 83 |
| 1992 | #1,357 | 122 |
| 1991 | #1,710 | 85 |
| 1990 | #1,568 | 97 |
| 1989 | #1,523 | 94 |
| 1988 | #1,368 | 104 |
| 1987 | #1,162 | 126 |
| 1986 | #1,047 | 144 |
| 1985 | #1,276 | 105 |
| 1984 | #1,103 | 125 |
| 1983 | #2,069 | 48 |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 |
| 1981 | #1,887 | 57 |
| 1980 | #2,342 | 41 |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 |
| 1976 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1975 | #2,516 | 31 |
| 1974 | #2,433 | 31 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 |
| 1963 | #3,066 | 17 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
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| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Genna! It came in at #3,802, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1935–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Genna is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#837 · 1 in 7,765
- Pennsylvania#1,011 · 1 in 10,091
- New York#1,055 · 1 in 8,694
- California#1,726 · 1 in 19,149
Best ever in a state: #404 in Minnesota, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #837 | 8 | 1 in 7,765 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,011 | 6 | 1 in 10,091 |
| New York | #1,055 | 12 | 1 in 8,694 |
| California | #1,726 | 12 | 1 in 19,149 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Genna
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1934
- Peaked 1986 at #1,047 (144 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,914 girls born in 1986 were named Genna (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 29.4% of all girls named Genna (891) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 11 | #3,802 (1934) | #4,029 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,764 (1947) | #4,764 |
| 1950s | 43 | #4,011 (1951) | #4,642 |
| 1960s | 138 | #2,432 (1960) | #3,787 |
| 1970s | 228 | #2,433 (1974) | #3,316 |
| 1980s | 891 | #1,047 (1986) | #1,593 |
| 1990s | 868 | #1,357 (1992) | #1,756 |
| 2000s | 650 | #1,915 (2002) | #2,749 |
| 2010s | 163 | #4,735 (2010) | #7,969 |
| 2020s | 34 | #10,250 (2020) | #12,924 |
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.
Genna in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 20,869 of them was named Genna, which outranked 88.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,752Petra85
- #1,752Torie85
- #1,752Zahra85
- #1,767Genna84
- #1,767Dianne84
- #1,767Emalee84
- #1,767Evangeline84
- #1,780Azucena83
- #1,780Bayleigh83
- #1,780Dorian83
Tied with 12 names at #1,767; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.