Geneve

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Geneva in US United States, CH Switzerland, GB United Kingdom and 10 more, Ginevra in IT Italy, ES Spain, BE Belgium, Ginebra in PE Peru, CO Colombia and Genebra in BR Brazil, PT Portugal.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Geneve is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name176 records spelled Geneve4 spellings in the group

  Also written Génevé, Genève, Genévé

• Hindi name42 records spelled Geneve4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Genève

• a separate name22 records spelled Geneve3 spellings in the group

  Also written Geneva

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Geneve is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Finnish, Geneva (a city in Switzerland)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1893–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Carla Geneveb. 1990AUAustralian singer-songwriter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 89 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Geneve?

We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Geneve (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Geneve have the most bearers?

We estimate about 28 thousand people bear Geneve in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled geneva.