Gena

Where Gena comes from

The dictionaries list Gena as a given name — a female given name, a rare variant of Gina or short form of Genevieve — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Gena Branscombe born
    Canadian composer
  3. 1968
    Peak, #420
    502 babies named Gena — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    Gena Lee Nolin born
    American actress and model
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #784.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, a rare variant of Gina or short form of Genevieve.
Namesakes
  • Gena Lee Nolin · American actress and model, born 1971
  • Gena Branscombe · Canadian composer, 1881–1977
  • Gena Desouza · actor, born 1997
  • Gena Löfstrand · South African athletics competitor, born 1995
  • Gena C. Lovett · American business executive

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.