Gennaro
About 2,542 American babies have been named Gennaro since 1904, most of them around 1926. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 1,500 Gennaros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gennaro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,542
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1926
- Best rank
- 1,092nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1904
How old the living Gennaros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,542 babies given the name since 1904, about 1,500 are alive — 58 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Gennaros
- Gennaro Gattuso (born 1978)Italian association football player and manager
- Gennaro Bracigliano (born 1980)French footballer
- Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (1851–1948)Catholic cardinal
- Gennaro Verolino (1906–2005)Italian archbishop
- Gennaro Manna (1715–1779)Italian composer
- Gennaro Delvecchio (born 1978)Italian footballer
- Gennaro Iezzo (born 1973)Italian footballer
- Gennaro Righelli (1886–1949)Italian film director and screenwriter
People named Gennaro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gennaro is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gennaro is most concentrated in New York (10.5×), New Jersey (2.9×), Connecticut (2.5×), Massachusetts (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1926
The most popular boys’ names the year Gennaro peaked:
Gennaro elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Gennaro | 10,672 | — |
| France boys | Gennaro | 660 | 788th |
| Belgium boys | Gennaro | 170 | 447th |
| Switzerland boys | Gennaro | 82 | 780th |
| England and Wales boys | Gennaro | 39 | 3,040th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Gennaro: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Gennaro | 62 | 0.005% | 648th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Gennaro | 17 | 0.004% | 351st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Gennaro | 2 | 0.003% | 188th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Gennaro | 1 | 0.027% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Gennaro: rank by region
In 2025, Gennaro was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Gennaro | 298 | 9 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Gennaro appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (215th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Gennaro lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 281 men called Gennaro were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Gennaro | 59 | 0.111 | 825 |
| Palmas, Las | Gennaro | 22 | 0.038 | 1,996 |
| Balears, Illes | Gennaro | 21 | 0.034 | 1,677 |
| Barcelona | Gennaro | 58 | 0.020 | 2,372 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Gennaro | 6 | 0.019 | 2,463 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Gennaro | 19 | 0.019 | 2,797 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Gennaro against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.