girls:
88.5k births since 1880
#399 (93rd percentile)
boys:
309 births since 1912
#4277 (7th percentile)
overall:
88.8k births since 1880
#737 (90th percentile)
The name Geneva is the #737 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 88,808 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #399 (93.0% percentile) for all time with 88,499 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,277 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 309 births since 1912.
Geneva has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1912 for boys).
The name Geneva has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Geneva reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 82.7% percentile (ranked #106) with 1,983 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 1,993 births per million (ranked 82.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Geneva ranks #813 for girls (14.2% percentile) with 79 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Geneva reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #540) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 16 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geneva".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Geneva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Geneva is pronounced as juh-NEE-vuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is guh-NEE-vuh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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