Genessa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- juh-NES-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Genessa is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Genessa come from?
Modern: modern variant, perhaps of Janessa
Is Genessa a girl's or a boy's name?
Genessa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Genessa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Genessa, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.
Half of all the girls named Genessa in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 123 girls in the US were given Genessa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,470, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
- Janessa 117
- Genessa 6
Genessa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,761 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,773 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,455 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,965 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,822 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,886 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,321 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,911 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,841 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,647 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,530 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,773 |
Names like Genessa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gianna, Camila, Alina, Gabriella, Samantha, Kiana, Sienna, Kayla, Brianna, Eliana, Fatima, Melina
Other spellings of Genessa
Names related to Genessa
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Genessa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/genessa, updated 20 October 2026.