Gena

Where Gena comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Gena.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Gena through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Gena Branscombe born
    Canadian composer
  3. 1968
    Peak, #420
    502 babies named Gena, the most in any year.
  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.