Girl · #66 in 2025

Genesis

Genesis: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Genesis per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2017. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Genesis has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 88% of its 2017 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.