Meaning not yet researched.
Genesis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,527 in 2025. Its best rank was #55 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #55 in 2024; #66 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Genesis in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#66 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #55.
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Genesis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,527 girls in 2025. Peak: #55 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 4,351 (2016).
In 2025, 3,527 US girls were named Genesis, making it the 66th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #55 in 2024. That is 322 fewer than the 3,849 girls named Genesis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #55, reached in 2024. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,351, in 2016. For comparison, it was #65 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Genesis in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 97,244 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 41,646 babies named Genesis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 38,279 US girls were named Genesis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,351. In 2025 that was about 1 in 456 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Genesis ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #26 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 25 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Genessis (1,227 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Genisis, Gennesis and Genesys are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Genisis (853), Gennesis (684), Genesys (463), Genecis (239), Genasis (84), Genysis (50), Gynesis (44), Genises (40), Genisys (36), Genesiss (31), Geneses (22), Gennesys (20), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Genesis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 626 | #26 | #20 |
| Maryland | 95 | #29 | #18 |
| Nevada | 42 | #38 | #33 |
| Delaware | 14 | #38 | #48 |
| California | 569 | #39 | #29 |
| Georgia | 153 | #44 | #59 |
| District of Columbia | 13 | #45 | #1 |
| Arizona | 101 | #45 | #36 |
| Virginia | 118 | #47 | #34 |
| North Carolina | 137 | #60 | #70 |
| Alabama | 56 | #66 | #169 |
| New Mexico | 18 | #67 | #24 |
| Oklahoma | 45 | #68 | #96 |
| Nebraska | 26 | #68 | #69 |
| South Carolina | 54 | #68 | #129 |
| Florida | 233 | #68 | #49 |
| Colorado | 68 | #69 | #83 |
| Tennessee | 95 | #69 | #113 |
| Arkansas | 35 | #72 | #97 |
| Illinois | 105 | #77 | #99 |
| Oregon | 37 | #82 | #167 |
| New Jersey | 88 | #83 | #68 |
| Indiana | 71 | #85 | #187 |
| Kentucky | 44 | #94 | #346 |
| Louisiana | 39 | #97 | #129 |
| New York | 142 | #106 | #72 |
| Washington | 59 | #107 | #108 |
| Iowa | 29 | #107 | #222 |
| Mississippi | 21 | #108 | #134 |
| Massachusetts | 48 | #110 | #108 |
| Kansas | 28 | #115 | #154 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #125 | #85 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #144 | #196 |
| Utah | 26 | #174 | #184 |
| Missouri | 32 | #196 | #289 |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | #197 | #245 |
| Michigan | 45 | #203 | #402 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #204 | #236 |
| Idaho | 11 | #205 | #198 |
| Minnesota | 27 | #206 | #241 |
| Ohio | 43 | #261 | #269 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,527 | #66 | 149 | #1,305 |
| 2024 | 3,849 | #55 | 183 | #1,146 |
| 2023 | 3,663 | #57 | 206 | #1,055 |
| 2022 | 3,448 | #65 | 210 | #1,050 |
| 2021 | 3,345 | #75 | 230 | #970 |
| 2020 | 3,692 | #62 | 279 | #824 |
| 2019 | 4,031 | #58 | 244 | #901 |
| 2018 | 4,099 | #57 | 211 | #981 |
| 2017 | 4,274 | #56 | 103 | #1,577 |
| 2016 | 4,351 | #58 | 99 | #1,621 |
| 2015 | 4,168 | #65 | 93 | #1,683 |
| 2014 | 4,170 | #68 | 65 | #2,126 |
| 2013 | 4,306 | #55 | 80 | #1,800 |
| 2012 | 4,309 | #56 | 76 | #1,899 |
| 2011 | 3,513 | #81 | 83 | #1,760 |
| 2010 | 3,303 | #89 | 68 | #2,024 |
| 2009 | 3,669 | #83 | 82 | #1,815 |
| 2008 | 3,523 | #95 | 77 | #1,880 |
| 2007 | 2,486 | #140 | 61 | #2,196 |
| 2006 | 2,088 | #169 | 70 | #1,926 |
| 2005 | 2,224 | #155 | 67 | #1,896 |
| 2004 | 1,858 | #184 | 56 | #2,112 |
| 2003 | 1,493 | #218 | 63 | #1,874 |
| 2002 | 1,372 | #228 | 61 | #1,855 |
| 2001 | 1,418 | #224 | 51 | #2,067 |
| 2000 | 1,303 | #247 | 48 | #2,100 |
| 1999 | 1,244 | #254 | 61 | #1,714 |
| 1998 | 1,185 | #260 | 41 | #2,211 |
| 1997 | 1,147 | #256 | 34 | #2,414 |
| 1996 | 1,028 | #282 | 40 | #2,122 |
| 1995 | 796 | #333 | 44 | #1,930 |
| 1994 | 1,042 | #270 | 42 | #1,990 |
| 1993 | 582 | #431 | 47 | #1,803 |
| 1992 | 686 | #373 | 42 | #1,935 |
| 1991 | 584 | #434 | 39 | #1,963 |
| 1990 | 391 | #590 | 19 | #3,218 |
| 1989 | 322 | #643 | 51 | #1,575 |
| 1988 | 247 | #758 | 18 | #3,005 |
| 1987 | 138 | #1,100 | 13 | #3,600 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,789 | 20 | #2,628 |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,684 | 11 | #3,891 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,779 | 13 | #3,344 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,717 | 9 | #4,266 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,928 | 13 | #3,364 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,035 | 11 | #3,689 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,050 | 8 | #4,651 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,926 | 12 | #3,428 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,833 | 12 | #3,279 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,684 | 10 | #3,696 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,504 | 8 | #4,148 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,328 | 7 | #4,491 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,860 | 10 | #3,407 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,680 | 10 | #3,292 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,138 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,246 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,852 | 6 | #4,423 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,164 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,105 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).