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Genaro vs Genora

American parents have registered 7,669 Genaros since 1880, against 578 Genoras. Genaro is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Genaro Genora

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 120 years in which either name was published, Genaro for 116 years and Genora for 4 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Genaro Genora
Total US births 7,669578
Most in one year 15217
Babies in 2025 62under 5
Estimated living today 6,100240
Median age today 3272
Peak year 20001932
Best rank 977th boys1,957th girls
Rank in 2025 2,258thunranked
First recorded 19081895
Girls / boys 0 / 7,669578 / 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 Genoras alive today are over 72; half the Genaros are over 32. That is 40 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 Genora.