How popular is “Genesis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Genesis” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Genesis” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Genesis” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Genesis” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Genesis” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Genesis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Genesis” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1964	5	0.000001286	5		100%
1969	7	0.000002014	7		100%
1970	17	0.000004714	11	6	29%
1971	10	0.000002913	10		100%
1972	8	0.000002545	8		100%
1973	27	0.00000895	17	10	26%
1974	35	0.000011513	25	10	43%
1975	42	0.00001391	35	7	67%
1976	40	0.000013183	32	8	60%
1977	41	0.000012907	31	10	51%
1978	67	0.00002111	55	12	64%
1979	66	0.000019838	54	12	64%
1980	59	0.000017129	51	8	73%
1981	62	0.000017922	51	11	65%
1982	68	0.000019384	55	13	62%
1983	72	0.000020789	63	9	75%
1984	74	0.000021211	61	13	65%
1985	80	0.000022415	69	11	73%
1986	84	0.000023615	64	20	52%
1987	151	0.000041879	138	13	83%
1988	265	0.000071718	247	18	86%
1989	373	0.000097023	322	51	73%
1990	410	0.000103732	391	19	91%
1991	623	0.000159938	584	39	87%
1992	728	0.000189521	686	42	88%
1993	629	0.000166831	582	47	85%
1994	1084	0.000291582	1042	42	92%
1995	840	0.000229373	796	44	90%
1996	1068	0.000292828	1028	40	93%
1997	1181	0.000325726	1147	34	94%
1998	1226	0.000333315	1185	41	93%
1999	1305	0.000353288	1244	61	91%
2000	1351	0.000357416	1303	48	93%
2001	1468	0.000392158	1417	51	93%
2002	1433	0.00038333	1372	61	91%
2003	1556	0.000409224	1493	63	92%
2004	1914	0.000500926	1858	56	94%
2005	2291	0.000595863	2224	67	94%
2006	2158	0.000545474	2088	70	94%
2007	2546	0.000636869	2485	61	95%
2008	3600	0.000915876	3523	77	96%
2009	3751	0.000981892	3669	82	96%
2010	3371	0.000912132	3303	68	96%
2011	3596	0.000983107	3513	83	95%
2012	4385	0.00119895	4309	76	97%
2013	4386	0.001203072	4306	80	96%
2014	4234	0.001142356	4169	65	97%
2015	4261	0.001151338	4168	93	96%
2016	4450	0.001212964	4351	99	96%
2017	4376	0.001223647	4273	103	95%
2018	4309	0.001225576	4098	211	90%
2019	4274	0.001231369	4030	244	89%
2020	3970	0.001188417	3692	278	86%
2021	3574	0.001054915	3344	230	87%
2022	3657	0.00108095	3448	209	89%
2023	3866	0.001167554	3661	205	89%
2024	4017	0.00120685	3835	182	91%

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