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Genaro vs Geneiva

American parents have registered 7,669 Genaros since 1880, against 20 Geneivas. Genaro is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Genaro against Geneiva, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Genaro Geneiva

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Genaro has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1930, when Genaro had 47 and Geneiva had 8.

Side by side

  Genaro Geneiva
Total US births 7,66920
Most in one year 1528
Babies in 2025 62under 5
Estimated living today 6,1004
Median age today 3280
Peak year 20001930
Best rank 977th boys3,345th girls
Rank in 2025 2,258thunranked
First recorded 19081927
Girls / boys 0 / 7,66920 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Geneivas alive today are over 80; half the Genaros are over 32. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Genaro and Geneiva.