Geno

Where Geno comes from

Geno hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #1,353 among boys, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Peak, #933
    35 babies named Geno — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,707.
  4. 1976
    Geno Segers born
    American actor
  5. 1994
    Geno Petriashvili born
    Georgian wrestler
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Geno Petriashvili · Georgian wrestler, born 1994
  • Geno Segers · American actor, born 1976
  • Geno Auriemma · Italian-born American women's basketball coach, born 1954
  • Geno Silva · American actor, 1948–2020
  • Geno Atkins · American football player, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.