Genesis
Genesis is ranked 55th among girls in 2024 (3,835 births). Its best rank was 55th, in 2013, 2024.
- Rank in 2024
- #55up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,8350.24% of girls
- Peak year
- 20164,351 births
- Best rank
- #55first in 2013
- Since 1964
- 93,541people given the name
The story in the numbers
90,028 girls have been named Genesis in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 4,351 births — 0.25% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 68 → 55).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 45%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 17 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,513 boys have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Genesis was the 58th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Genesis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aleenapeak 2015
- Aleydapeak 2014
- Averipeak 2015
- Ellerypeak 2014
- Polinapeak 2017
- Ellepeak 2019
- Clairapeak 2014
- Klairepeak 2012
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.