girls:
59 births since 1920
#5657 (1st percentile)
overall:
59 births since 1920
#7680 (1st percentile)
The name Geniel is the #7,680 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,657 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 59 births since 1920.
Geniel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (first recorded for girls in 1920). Birth data for Geniel is available in 11 out of the 41 years between 1920 and 1960. 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, Geniel reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #590) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1960.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geniel".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Janiel. View all variations of Janiel.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Geniel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Janiel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Janiel..
Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Geniel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.1% confident that Geniel is pronounced as JEE-neel, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NEEL, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Geniel? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Geniel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Geniel, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH IY1 N IY0 L) 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker