Geneva
#1,652 in the US in 2025
Geneva in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 29% as a share of girls' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Geneva in New Zealand
Geneva never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #294 | 28 |
| 1890 | #230 | 112 |
| 1900 | #172 | 319 |
| 1910 | #117 | 699 |
| 1920 | #106 | 2,467 |
| 1930 | #133 | 1,798 |
| 1940 | #178 | 1,069 |
| 1950 | #284 | 756 |
| 1960 | #468 | 431 |
| 1970 | #591 | 297 |
| 1980 | #678 | 257 |
| 1990 | #849 | 231 |
| 2000 | #1,245 | 157 |
| 2010 | #1,489 | 151 |
| 2020 | #1,432 | 152 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Geneva most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6,483 |
| Texas | 6,474 |
| North Carolina | 4,911 |
| Georgia | 4,746 |
| Tennessee | 4,369 |
| South Carolina | 4,249 |
| Oklahoma | 3,417 |
| Arkansas | 3,368 |
| Mississippi | 3,213 |
| Alabama | 3,194 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026