girls:
1.8k births since 1904
#4017 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1904
#5995 (23rd percentile)
The name Genelle is the #5,995 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,756 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 22.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,017 (29.7% percentile) for all time with 1,756 births since 1904.
Genelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (first recorded for girls in 1904). Birth data for Genelle is available in 112 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023. 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, Genelle reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #746) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Genelle ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 22.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Genelle".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Genelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.4% confident that Genelle is pronounced as juh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-NEHL, at 28.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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