In 2025, 6 US girls were named Genie, making it the 13,784th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,324 places from #16,108 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 girls named Genie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #549, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 69, in 1982. For comparison, it was #9,145 in 2015 and #1,460 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Genie in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 2,910 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 391 babies named Genie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 37 US girls were named Genie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 6. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gennie (2,740 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Genia, Genee and Geanie are summarised on this page.