Geni
Geni is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Geni
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Geni is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Portuguese
The Story of Geni
Geni first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1947, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1959: 18 births, good for #2,760 nationwide. About 28% of every Geni on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Geni last appeared in the published SSA data in 2010, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 340 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Geni
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About the name Geni
Geni is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1947 and has accumulated 340 births in the dataset. Geni's peak popularity came in 1959 when it ranked #2,760. Use the chart and map above to compare Geni's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.