Entry № 3599 · French origin

Genevieve Genevieve — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEN-eh-veev /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Tribe woman, of the people"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "tribe woman, of the people".

Genevieve comes from the Old French Geneviève — possibly from the Germanic kuni (kin, tribe) and weif (woman), meaning "woman of the tribe" or "of the people." Saint Geneviève (c. 422-512), patron saint of Paris, is credited with saving the city from Attila the Hun by prayer.

Genevieve has been climbing steadily in the U.S. since the 2000s. Today it sits in the U.S. top 175.

Tribe woman, of the people — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Genevieve
Transliteration
Genevieve
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɛn.ə.viːv /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Genevieve stands.

Genevieve 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.

Genevieves before her.

Real people
Saint Geneviève
Patron saint of Paris.
c. 422 – 512
Geneviève Bujold
French Canadian actress.
born 1942
In fiction

Names connected to Genevieve.

The number behind Genevieve.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Genevieve reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.