girls:
1.6k births since 1956
#4196 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1956
#6192 (20th percentile)
The name Geena is the #6,192 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,554 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 20.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,196 (26.6% percentile) for all time with 1,554 births since 1956.
Geena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (first recorded for girls in 1956). Birth data for Geena is available in 37 out of the 62 years between 1956 and 2017. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Geena reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 18.7% percentile (ranked #687) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 84 births per million (ranked 18.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geena".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Geena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Geena is pronounced as JEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GEE-nuh, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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