boys:
2.5k births since 1904
#2528 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1904
#5339 (31st percentile)
The name Gennaro is the #5,339 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,499 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 31.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,528 (44.8% percentile) for all time with 2,499 births since 1904.
Gennaro first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (first recorded for boys in 1904). Birth data for Gennaro is available in 116 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 boys, Gennaro reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #482) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 56 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Gennaro ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 23.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gennaro".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Gennaro. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.6% confident that Gennaro is pronounced as juh-NAH-roh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-NAH-roh, at 27.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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