Genna
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Genna by the numbers
Genna was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 144 babies in 1986, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Genna
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Genna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Genna
Names that are said the same way as Genna, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Genna
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