Baby name
STABLE
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Genesis
/JEN · eh · sis/
Meaning
“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.
Nicknames
gen
Vibe
strong
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.