Gene
Gene is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. Its best rank was 61st, in 1937.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 830.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19373,165 births
- Best rank
- #61in 1937
- Since 1880
- 133,809people given the name
The story in the numbers
126,812 boys have been named Gene in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1937, with 3,165 births — 0.30% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 83 births in 2024, against 3,165 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1930s alone account for 23%. It has spent 119 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 6,997 girls have also been given it, 5.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 129 | |
| 1890s | 219 | |
| 1900s | 554 | |
| 1910s | 3,870 | |
| 1920s | 17,579 | |
| 1930s | 29,312 | |
| 1940s | 27,740 | |
| 1950s | 19,695 | |
| 1960s | 13,700 | |
| 1970s | 6,233 | |
| 1980s | 3,621 | |
| 1990s | 2,058 | |
| 2000s | 999 | |
| 2010s | 694 | |
| 2020s | 409 |
In 1937, its biggest year
Gene was the 61st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1937 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1937.
Names that rose and fell with Gene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donpeak 1946
- Donaldpeak 1934
- Deraldpeak 1929
- Daroldpeak 1932
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Buddypeak 1935
- Billypeak 1934
- Doycepeak 1934
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.