Genoveva

Where Genoveva comes from

Genoveva 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. 1870
    Genoveva Torres Morales born
    Spanish Roman Catholic nun and saint
  2. 1885
    First appearance
    #921 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1894
    Peak, #850
    13 babies named Genoveva — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,385.
  5. 1987
    Genoveva Añonman born
    Equatorial Guinean association football player and manager
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Genoveva Añonman · Equatorial Guinean association football player and manager, born 1987
  • Genoveva Torres Morales · Spanish Roman Catholic nun and saint, 1870–1956
  • Genoveva Umeh · Nigerian actress, born 1995
  • Genoveva Matute · Filipino writer, 1915–2009
  • Genoveva Ríos · Bolivian hero, born 1865

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.