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Genaro vs Genie

American parents have registered 7,669 Genaros since 1880, against 2,910 Genies. Genaro is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Genaro Genie

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

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Genaro for 104 years and Genie for 41 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Genaro Genie
Total US births 7,6692,910
Most in one year 15269
Babies in 2025 626
Estimated living today 6,1001,800
Median age today 3255
Peak year 20001982
Best rank 977th boys1,653rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,258th13,208th
First recorded 19081880
Girls / boys 0 / 7,6692,737 / 173

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 Genies alive today are over 55; half the Genaros are over 32. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Genaro Genie
France 7510

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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