Gennaro

Where Gennaro comes from

Gennaro hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1851
    Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte born
    Catholic cardinal
  2. 1904
    First appearance
    #966 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1913
    Peak, #897
    30 babies named Gennaro — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,497.
  5. 1978
    Gennaro Gattuso born
    Italian association football player and manager
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gennaro Gattuso · Italian association football player and manager, born 1978
  • Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte · Catholic cardinal, 1851–1948
  • Gennaro Bracigliano · French footballer, born 1980
  • Gennaro Verolino · Italian archbishop, 1906–2005
  • Gennaro Manna · Italian composer, 1715–1779

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.