girls:
2.7k births since 1880
#3317 (42nd percentile)
boys:
173 births since 1889
#4413 (4th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1880
#5029 (35th percentile)
The name Genie is the #5,029 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,899 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 35.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,317 (42.0% percentile) for all time with 2,726 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,413 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 173 births since 1889.
Genie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1889 for boys). Birth data for Genie is available in 137 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 27 years for boys). 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.
The name Genie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Genie reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #626) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 108 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Genie ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Genie reached its peak popularity in 1904, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #234) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 58 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1951.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Genie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Genie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Genie is pronounced as JEE-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-nee, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH IY1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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