Genero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of generar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xeneɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Genero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 41K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 247K
- ESSpain1 in 273K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
1,100 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular present indicative of generar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Genero 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.
1,100 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Genero is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, to bring to life, to confer life upon: to beget, to breed, to father, to impregnate, to procreate, to sire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-ole, alternative form of jeneyro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, son-in-law
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, genus
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)
- Felice Generob. 1819ITItalian politician
- Eugenio Generob. 1875ITItalian poet
- Ramón de los Santosb. 1949DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player (1949-2015)
- Maryline Gygax Générob. 1959FRSurgeon General of the French Army
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 333 | #24,254 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 183 | #17,680 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 183 | #17,656 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 13 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Genero mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of generar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Genero?
- A machine transcription gives /xeneɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Genero have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Genero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genero.
- Where is Genero most common?
- Genero is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Genero?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,100 people named Genero, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/generoThe 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, “Genero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.