Gennadi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Probably from a short form of Greek names such as Diogenés ‘born of Zeus’ and Hermogenés ‘born of Hermes’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡənaːdɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gennadi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 174K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 382as Геннадій
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gennadi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #240 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 named Геннадий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Геннадий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 3 more and Геннадій in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably from a short form of Greek names such as Diogenés ‘born of Zeus’ and Hermogenés ‘born of Hermes’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gennadi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #60 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | #28 | Геннадий | 190 |
| UA Ukraine | #70 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | — | Геннадій | 71 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #86 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 794 | 1.7K | Геннадий | 48 |
| BY Belarus | #64 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 17 | Геннадий | 34 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #778 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Геннадий | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #232 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Геннадий | 13 |
| EE Estonia | #136 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 86 | Gennadi | 25 |
| FI Finland | #236 | 32 | 1 in 174K | 328 | Геннадий | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gennadi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Gennadij: in den 1960er-
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gennadi Gerasimovb. 1930RUSoviet and Russian diplomat (1930-2010)
- Gennady Rozhdestvenskyb. 1931RUnot in their usual nameRussian conductor and composer (1931-2018)
- Gennady Yanayevb. 1937RUnot in their usual namevice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991
- Gennadi Strekalovb. 1940RUSoviet and Russian cosmonaut and Ashoka Chakra recipient (1940–2004)
- Gennady Zyuganovb. 1944RUnot in their usual nameGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Gennady Khazanovb. 1945RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor and comedian
- Hyenadz Navitskib. 1949BYnot in their usual name5th Prime Minister of Belarus 2001–2003
- Gennady Timchenkob. 1952AMnot in their usual nameRussian businessman and billionaire
- Gennady Padalkab. 1958RUnot in their usual nameRussian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonaut
- Genndy Tartakovskyb. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian-American cinema and television animator, director and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.4K | #123 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 328 | #1,365 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 32 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,232 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gennadi mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from a short form of Greek names such as Diogenés ‘born of Zeus’ and Hermogenés ‘born of Hermes’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Gennadi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡənaːdɪ/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Gennadi a male or female name?
- Gennadi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Gennadi?
- In the etymology graph, Gennadiy, Gennady and Ghenadie are forms of the same name in other languages; Gena and Genya are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Gennadi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 338 thousand people named Геннадий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gennadi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 32 people named Gennadi, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Gennadi compared with other names?
- In Russia, Gennadi is the 60th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gennadiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gennadi” — the 60th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.