Gener
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xeneɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gener is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipped from Generoso.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Clipped from Generoso.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gener 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gener | 65 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Gener | 8 |
| CO Colombia | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Gener | 34 |
| US United States | 314 | 1 in 1.1M | 393 | Gener | 129 |
| BR Brazil | 287 | 1 in 738K | 339 | Gener | 32 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Gener | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 62 | 1 in 82K | 62 | Gener | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Gener is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite neuter/masculine plural of gen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, a refuge; protection; asylum; sanctuary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of gene
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite plural of gen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, inflection of geen:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, son-in-law
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Guerau Generb. 1369ESpainter (1369-1408)
- Pompeu Gener i Babotb. 1846ESSpanish journalist (1846-1920)
- Delfí Dalmau i Generb. 1891ESSpanish Esperantist, linguist and educationist (1891-1965)
- Avel·lí Artís-Generb. 1912ESCatalan journalist, writer and translator (1912-2000)
- Ljiljana Generb. 1928HRCroatian actress (1928–2010)
- Araceli Vendrell i Generb. 1963ESSpanish politician
- Ramón Generb. 1967ESSpanish popularizer of music and art
- Pau Gener Galinb. 1977ESSpanish poet and writer
- Miki Esparbéb. 1983ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Sheen Generactress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 393 | #56,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 308 | #64,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 294 | #63,450 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 75 | #78,394 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gener mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipped from Generoso. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Gener a male or female name?
- Gener 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.
- How do you pronounce Gener?
- A machine transcription gives /xeneɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gener have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Gener in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gener.
- How common is the name Gener?
- In the United States, the national register counted 314 people named Gener in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gener?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/generThe 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, “Gener”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.