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Geneva vs Genevie

American parents have registered 89,067 Genevas since 1880, against 2,003 Genevies. Geneva is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Geneva against Genevie, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Geneva 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

Geneva has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Geneva had 146 and Genevie had 41.

Side by side

  Geneva Genevie
Total US births 89,0672,003
Most in one year 2,59042
Babies in 2025 12522
Estimated living today 28,0001,200
Median age today 6621
Peak year 19241923
Best rank 110th girls1,197th girls
Rank in 2025 1,652nd5,554th
First recorded 18801907
Girls / boys 88,758 / 3092,003 / 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 Genevas alive today are over 66; half the Genevies are over 21. That is 45 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: Geneva and Genevie.