Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gennady through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 83 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −69%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,086 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gennady’s family of names
In English usage, Gennady has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Геннадий.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ГеннадийRussian
- Genaequivalent
- Ghenadieequivalent
- Henadzequivalent
- Γεννάδιοςequivalent
- Генадзьequivalent
- Γενάδιοςequivalent
- Genadiuszequivalent
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People named Gennady
- Gennady ZyuganovGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federationborn 1944
- Gennady Yanayevvice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 19911937–2010
- Genndy TartakovskyRussian-American cinema and television animator, director and producerborn 1970
- Gennady GolovkinKazakhstani boxerborn 1982
- Gennady PadalkaRussian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonautborn 1958
- Gennadiy AygiChuvash poet, writer, and translator (1934-2006)
- Gennadius ScholariusPatriarch of Constantinople1400–1473
- Gennady RozhdestvenskyRussian conductor and composer (1931-2018)
- Gennady StrekalovSoviet and Russian cosmonaut and Ashoka Chakra recipient (1940–2004)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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