Baby name

STABLE GIRL · GREEK-HEBREW
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Genesis

/JEN · eh · sis/


“Origin, beginning”

Directly from the Greek word for origin or beginning, which itself translates the Hebrew title of the first book of the Bible; emerged as a given name in the US in the 1980s.

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How it ages.

Trendy in the 1990s-2000s US; already starting to feel era-specific.

The cultural moment.

Rose sharply in the US and Puerto Rico from the late 1990s; peaked around 2012.