Entry № 3677 · Italian origin

Ginevra Ginevra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jee-NEH-vrah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"White wave, fair"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "white wave, fair".

Ginevra is the Italian form of Guinevere — from the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, meaning "white phantom" or "fair one." Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci (c. 1474) is the only Leonardo painting on permanent public display in the Americas.

Ginevra is widely used in Italy. In Harry Potter, Ginevra ("Ginny") Weasley is Harry's love interest.

Fair one. The Italian Guinevere.

The name in its native script.

Ginevra
Transliteration
Ginevra
Pronunciation
/ dʒɪˈnɛv.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ginevra stands.

Ginevra 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.

Ginevras before her.

Real people
Ginevra de' Benci
Subject of Leonardo's portrait.
born 1457
In fiction
Ginevra Weasley
Harry's wife in Harry Potter.
1997 onward

Names connected to Ginevra.

The number behind Ginevra.

4

The Builder

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