Genoveva
Genoveva is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 873rd, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192551 births
- Best rank
- #873in 1894
- Since 1885
- 2,570people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,570 girls have been named Genoveva in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 51 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Genoveva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | |
| 1890s | 67 | |
| 1900s | 74 | |
| 1910s | 185 | |
| 1920s | 425 | |
| 1930s | 301 | |
| 1940s | 247 | |
| 1950s | 236 | |
| 1960s | 217 | |
| 1970s | 220 | |
| 1980s | 175 | |
| 1990s | 140 | |
| 2000s | 111 | |
| 2010s | 106 | |
| 2020s | 50 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Genoveva was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Genoveva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delfinapeak 1925
- Esterpeak 1925
- Corrinnepeak 1924
- Corrinepeak 1926
- Concepcionpeak 1925
- Tomasapeak 1925
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Manuelapeak 1924
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.