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Theme
Feminine

Genesis

/ˈdʒɛn.ə.sɪs/

Origin, beginning

Greek

How to say it

GEN · e · sis

/ˈdʒɛn.ə.sɪs/

What it means

Greek for 'origin' or 'birth,' from a root meaning 'to be born.' The first book of the Hebrew Bible, and a name parents started using in earnest in the 2000s.

Genesis is the Greek word for 'origin' or 'beginning' (from a root meaning 'to be born' or 'to come into being'). It's the Greek title of the first book of the Hebrew Bible, which the Greek Septuagint named for its opening word; the Hebrew title is Bereshit. As a given name it's a 21st-century US phenomenon, climbing into the top 100 in 2008 and staying there. It reads predominantly feminine in US records but appears for both. Particularly common in Latino families. Rarely shortens.

Popularity over time

#10 #100 #1000 #1 #710518802025

peaked at #55 in 2013, currently #66 in 2025.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, names given to at least 5 babies in a year, 1880–present. See where the names are moving

Heads-up notes

  • Pop culture

    The band Genesis (Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins) is the longest-running cultural anchor; for younger parents the biblical reference is the dominant one.

Who's worn it

Historical figures, characters, and public faces who share the name. The cultural surface, for whatever weight you want to give it.

  • Book of Genesis First book of the Hebrew Bible, Adam and Eve through Joseph in Egypt
  • Genesis (band) British rock band founded 1967, Peter Gabriel and later Phil Collins as frontmen

Spelling variants

  • Génesis