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Genet

girl name
Origin
Amharic
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

paradise, garden of Eden

How popular is Genet around the world?

In the United States, Genet is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. In Spain, 21 residents are named Genet, ranked 30,167th among women, with a mean age of 24.1 years.

Genet is on the official records of Spain.

United States

under 5 a year

In the United States, Genet is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.

Genet appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Spain

1 in 2.1M

In Spain, 21 residents are named Genet, ranked 30,167th among women, with a mean age of 24.1 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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Names that fit alongside Genet

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