Usage: Geneva, of German origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Geneva are in general originating from France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.
For another variant of the name Geneva across the world, see Genevieve.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9.
The name Geneva is ranked on the 3,038th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 117000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population.
The name Geneva has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Geneva for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
History and Origin
Geneva is a first name of Germanic origin, that means ‘juniper tree’. It is usually used as a name for women. It can also mean “leader of women”. Geneva is an obscure name. Less than 200 babies in the United States are named Geneva every year. The name Geneva was most popular in the 1920s, and made up almost 0.002% of birth names. Today, there are approximately 43,567 people named Geneva in the US. The most common age group with the name Geneva is 84 years.
English: of recent origin and uncertain derivation. In form it coincides with the city in Switzerland (cf. Florence and Venetia), but it may rather have been intended as a Latinate short form of Geneviève.
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