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Genesis vs Genevie

American parents have registered 97,244 Genesises since 1880, against 2,003 Genevies. Genesis is still ahead, with 3,676 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Genesis against Genevie, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Genesis Genevie

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 114 years in which either name was published, Genevie for 57 years and Genesis for 57 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Genesis Genevie
Total US births 97,2442,003
Most in one year 4,45042
Babies in 2025 3,67622
Estimated living today 96,0001,200
Median age today 1121
Peak year 20161923
Best rank 58th girls1,197th girls
Rank in 2025 66th5,554th
First recorded 19641907
Girls / boys 93,578 / 3,6662,003 / 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 Genevies alive today are over 21; half the Genesises are over 11. That is 10 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: Genesis and Genevie.