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The first name 
Genvieve

Genvieve is a female first name.

Genvieve – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Genvieve has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Genvieve. That means that a girl named Genvieve is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Genvieve

Genvieve has 8 letters 
and begins with a G

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 eight letters, the name Genvieve is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.

Other names with 
G, e, n, v, i, e, v and e

If you take all the letters in the name Genvieve – G, e, n, v, i, e, v and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Genevive or Geneviev.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Genvieve

If your name is Genvieve 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...

This is how you spell the name Genvieve

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Genvieve, you can simply say:

Goat

Elephant

Nut

Violin

Igloo

Elephant

Violin

Elephant

This is how the name Genvieve is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Genvieve in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Genvieve

Genvieve

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Genvieve

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Genvieve is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

G
E
N
V
I
E
V
E

Have you ever waved the name Genvieve

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
V
I
E
V
E

Beeping like crazy...

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. Genvieve sounds like this: