Given name & surname · also Provençal
Ginés
“source, origin; birth”
Ginés is a masculine given name from Provençal, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ginés goes back to a word meaning “source, origin; birth.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Ginés comes from Provençal, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Ginés developed from Γενέσιος.
Ginés’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Ginés shares a linguistic root with the Italian form GENESIO. In Spanish usage, Ginés has a conventional equivalent in the Dutch form GENESIUS. In Spanish usage, Ginés has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form GENESIO.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ginés has relatives in 15 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Ginés comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Xenxocognate · Galician
- Genesiocognate · Italian
- Geníscognate · Catalan
- GenesiusSwedish, Dutch
- GenésioPortuguese
- GenezjuszPolish
- Genèscognate · French
- GiñesBasque
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People named Ginés
- Ginés Pérez de HitaSpanish writer1544–1619
- Ginés Ramón García BeltránSpanish bishopborn 1961
- Ginés MeléndezSpanish footballer/Managerborn 1950
- Ginés García PeránSpanish bicycle racerborn 1941
- Ginés González GarcíaArgentine politician (1945–2024)
- Ginés MorataSpanish biologist and Research Professor at the Centro de Biología Molecular in Madridborn 1945
- Ginés García Millánactorborn 1964
- Ginés SalmerónSpanish bicycle racerborn 1972
- Ginés Andrés de AguirreSpanish painter (c.1727-1800)
Characters named Ginés: Ginés de Pasamonte (Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote).
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