Geneva is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Geneva is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,250 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,249 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 77,477 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Geneva. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Geneva annualy. This means that there have been girls named Geneva who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Geneva have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Geneva even more than any other time: in 1920, it holds its present record of #103 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Geneva was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Geneva has never been ranked higher than #103. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,363 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 144 girls named Geneva were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Geneva were born, there have been 208 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Geneva is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Geneva and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Geneva, you can simply say:
Goat
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Geneva
Geneva
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
E
N
E
V
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
E
N
E
V
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Geneva sounds like this:
