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Genaro vs Genieve

American parents have registered 7,669 Genaros since 1880, against 536 Genieves. Genaro is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Genaro against Genieve, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Genaro Genieve

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 119 years in which either name was published, Genaro for 115 years and Genieve for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Genaro Genieve
Total US births 7,669536
Most in one year 15222
Babies in 2025 62under 5
Estimated living today 6,100170
Median age today 3247
Peak year 20001915
Best rank 977th boys1,571st girls
Rank in 2025 2,258thunranked
First recorded 19081900
Girls / boys 0 / 7,669536 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Genieves alive today are over 47; half the Genaros are over 32. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Genaro and Genieve.