Girl
Genevieve
As a girl's name, Genevieve is understood to mean "Associated with the patron saint of Paris". It is not as common as it was in the 1920s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
Old FrenchOld French/Germanic, possibly "genos" (people) + "wife"
EtymologyAssociated with the patron saint of Paris
Births by decade
1900s
5,292
1910s
22,865
1920s
24,848
1930s
9,705
1940s
5,135
1950s
3,173
1960s
2,544
1970s
3,632
1980s
4,762
1990s
4,564
2000s
8,221
2010s
12,176
Peaked in the 1920s · 106,917 total U.S. births since 1900