Genesis

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Genesis: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Genesis: Recorded since 2000, its highest recorded position is #1,128, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#1128highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2002	#2868
2003	#3594
2005	#3382
2006	#4157
2007	#3218
2008	#2487
2009	#2535
2010	#2235
2011	#3185
2012	#2717
2013	#2176
2014	#1798
2015	#2496
2016	#2547
2017	#1995
2018	#1436
2019	#2040
2020	#1507
2021	#2341
2022	#1685
2023	#1774
2024	#1128

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #1128 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1128 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Genesis appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 263 births with the name.

Genesis across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Genesis's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#1128 (2024)	#1128 (2024)	23 of 25	263 (2000–2024)	30 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#3467 (2003)	#1935 (2020)	#2088 (2024)	15 of 22	96 (2003–2024)	11 (2020)

Genesis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Genesis in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	45	8 of 10	6
2010s	124	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	94	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 19 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Genesis appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1128 in England and Wales in 2024.

Genesis's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1507	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,128, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 30 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Gene · #255, 37y
Genevieve · #235, 61y
Genie · #2689, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mahammed · #1127, 24y
Adham · #1130, 27y
Arber · #1130, 26y
Bow · #1130, 19y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Amyrah · #1128, 16y
Bow · #1130, 19y
Taye · #1125, 24y
Leo-James · #1132, 16y

Genesis and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Genesis without appearing here.

Genesis moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2535 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2235 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2235 and #5707.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1436 and #4684.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3185 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Genesis

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1798 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2496 and #1240.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3594 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #2682.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1436 and #1436.
Matheo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1935 and #2076 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3017 and #3017.

Moved the opposite way to Genesis

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Genesis

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Genesis went from #3912 to #1128 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1128 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Genesis

Genesis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Genesis across 2 official records

Genesis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Genesis appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Genesis and the names beside it

Genesis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Genesis

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Moved the same way as Genesis

Genesis at a glance

Genesis across 2 official records

Genesis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Genesis appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Genesis and the names beside it

Genesis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Genesis

Moved the opposite way to Genesis

Moved the same way as Genesis