Genesis comes from the Greek génesis (γένεσις), meaning "beginning," "birth," or "origin." It is the title of the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, which tells the story of the creation of the world.
Genesis began appearing in U.S. records as a girl's name in the 1990s and has risen rapidly to the top 75 girl names. Particularly popular in Hispanic-American families, where the religious resonance and the meaning are equally strong.
Genesis does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Genesis reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.