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Genaro vs Genine

American parents have registered 7,669 Genaros since 1880, against 552 Genines. Genaro is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Genaro Genine

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

Genaro has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1964, when Genaro had 56 and Genine had 30.

Side by side

  Genaro Genine
Total US births 7,669552
Most in one year 15236
Babies in 2025 62under 5
Estimated living today 6,100500
Median age today 3255
Peak year 20001970
Best rank 977th boys2,203rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,258thunranked
First recorded 19081942
Girls / boys 0 / 7,669552 / 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 Genines alive today are over 55; half the Genaros are over 32. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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