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Geneva
Pronounced /d͡ʒəˈniːvə/
Rank in 2024
#1,608
Born in 2024
130
Peak year
1924 · #110
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 130 girls were named Geneva, about 1 in every 12,409.
- It peaked in 1924 with 2,582 babies, ranked #110.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 88,631 girls have been named Geneva since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Geneva per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.9Greatest1901–27
- 1.2Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 38,031 babies, 1.86 per 1,000. Silent: 24,095 babies, 1.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,617 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,171 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,509 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,640 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,917 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Mentioned in Latin texts as Genava. Probably via a Proto-Celtic *genwā from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a derivative of *ǵónu in the sense of a bending river or estuary, possibly akin to Genoa. ==== Proper noun ==== Geneva The capital city of Geneva canton, Switzerland. (metonymic) The Swiss government. A canton of Switzerland. Synonym: canton of Geneva The largest lake in Switzerland: see Lake Geneva. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Geneva County, Alabama. Former name of Planada, California.
- A female given name transferred from the place name or confused with Genevieve or Ginevra.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /d͡ʒəˈniːvə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Geneva, CC BY-SA 4.0.