Gena
Gena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 420th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1968502 births
- Best rank
- #420in 1968
- Since 1880
- 12,825people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,825 girls have been named Gena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 502 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 502 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 102 | |
| 1890s | 143 | |
| 1900s | 117 | |
| 1910s | 219 | |
| 1920s | 289 | |
| 1930s | 210 | |
| 1940s | 349 | |
| 1950s | 1,233 | |
| 1960s | 3,967 | |
| 1970s | 3,215 | |
| 1980s | 1,711 | |
| 1990s | 765 | |
| 2000s | 368 | |
| 2010s | 117 | |
| 2020s | 20 |
In 1968, its biggest year
Gena was the 420th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Gena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Denapeak 1970
- Shelliepeak 1970
- Geniapeak 1964
- Jodiepeak 1970
- Ginapeak 1967
- Melindapeak 1970
- Juliepeak 1958
- Tamarapeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.