Genie
Genie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 549th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 198269 births
- Best rank
- #549in 1883
- Since 1880
- 2,904people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,731 girls have been named Genie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 69 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 69 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1940s alone account for 14%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 173 boys have also been given it, 6.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Genie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 108 | |
| 1890s | 117 | |
| 1900s | 85 | |
| 1910s | 131 | |
| 1920s | 137 | |
| 1930s | 144 | |
| 1940s | 381 | |
| 1950s | 376 | |
| 1960s | 337 | |
| 1970s | 269 | |
| 1980s | 378 | |
| 1990s | 137 | |
| 2000s | 69 | |
| 2010s | 41 | |
| 2020s | 21 |
In 1982, its biggest year
Genie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Genie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deliapeak 1957
- Mindapeak 1951
- Christenapeak 1975
- Frederickapeak 1947
- Carriepeak 1977
- Theresiapeak 1959
- Alidapeak 1917
- Minervapeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
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.