Entry № 3598 · English origin

Geneva Geneva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jeh-NEE-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Juniper tree; the Swiss city"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "juniper tree; the swiss city".

The name is also linked to the juniper (genièvre in French) and sometimes used as a form of Genevieve.

Worldly and serene, Geneva has a quiet, cosmopolitan poise.

Juniper, and a city by the lake.

The name in its native script.

Geneva
Transliteration
Geneva
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈniː.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Geneva stands.

Geneva 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.

Genevas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Geneva.

The number behind Geneva.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Geneva reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.