Geneva
Geneva is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 130 births. Its best rank was 106th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1300.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19242,582 births
- Best rank
- #106in 1920
- Since 1880
- 88,631people given the name
The story in the numbers
88,631 girls have been named Geneva in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 2,582 births — 0.21% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 130 births in 2024, against 2,582 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Geneva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 663 | |
| 1890s | 1,669 | |
| 1900s | 3,861 | |
| 1910s | 15,043 | |
| 1920s | 23,273 | |
| 1930s | 14,279 | |
| 1940s | 9,485 | |
| 1950s | 6,175 | |
| 1960s | 3,350 | |
| 1970s | 2,510 | |
| 1980s | 2,336 | |
| 1990s | 1,974 | |
| 2000s | 1,603 | |
| 2010s | 1,712 | |
| 2020s | 698 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Geneva was the 110th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Geneva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florinepeak 1921
- Allenepeak 1926
- Bernicepeak 1921
- Margarettepeak 1921
- Claricepeak 1921
- Wildapeak 1926
- Marianpeak 1924
- Alenepeak 1920
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.