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Pronunciation	English: /ˈdʒɛnɪviːv/French: [ʒənvjɛv]
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	French
Meaning	"Woman of the race, tribe"

Genevieve (French: Geneviève) is a female name of "Celtic or Germanic origin, possibly from the Germanic name Kenowefa [Latinized as Genoveva], meaning kin, 'race' or 'tribe', and wefa, 'woman'".[1] Genevieve can also mean "woman of the family".[2]

People with this name

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• Sainte Geneviève, French saint (Patron saint of Paris) in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
• Genevieve Angelson (born 1987), American TV and film actress
• Genevieve Armstrong (born 1988), New Zealand rower
• Genevieve Artadi (born 1982), American singer and producer
• Genevieve Beacom (born 2004–2005), Australian baseball pitcher
• Geneviève Behrend (1881–1960), French-born author and teacher
• Genevieve Behrent (born 1990), New Zealand rower
• Genevieve Bell, vice-chancellor of ANU
• Genevieve Blatt (1913–1996), American judge and politician
• Geneviève Brunet (1930–2025), French actress
• Geneviève Robic-Brunet (born 1959), Canadian cyclist
• Geneviève Bujold (born 1942), Canadian actress
• Geneviève Castrée (1981–2016), Canadian comics artist, illustrator, and musician
• Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri (c.1817–1878), early French photographer
• Genevieve Chappell (born 1972), American television personality
• Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Canadian film director
• Genevieve Feinstein (1913–2006), American mathematician, cryptanalyst, NSA Hall of Honor recipient
• Geneviève Fraisse (born 1948), French feminist philosopher
• Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (1920–2002), member of the French Resistance
• Genevieve Gaunt (born 1991), Dutch-English actress
• Geneviève Gemayel (1908–2003), Lebanese political figure
• Genevieve Gorder (born 1974), American television host and interior designer
• Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1913–2006), American mathematician and cryptanalyst
• Geneviève Hafner, French photographer based in New York City
• Geneviève Halévy (1849–1926), French salonnière
• Genevieve Hannelius (born 1998), American teen actress, also known as G Hannelius
• Genevieve Hughes (1932–2012), American Freedom Rider
• Geneviève Jeanningros (born c. 1942/1943), a French-Argentine Catholic nun
• Gen Kitchen, British politician
• Geneviève Lacambre (born 1937), French heritage curator
• Geneviève Meurgues (1931–2021), French explorer, museum curator and conservator
• Genevieve Mina (born 1996), American politician
• Genevieve Morton (born 1986), South African model
• Genevieve Mushaluk (born 1991), Canadian lawyer and Survivor 47 contestant
• Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979), Nigerian actress
• Genevieve O'Reilly (born 1977), Irish-born Australian actress
• Genevieve Oswald (1921–2019), American dance scholar and archivist
• Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), American actress
• Geneviève Page (1927–2025), French actress
• Genevieve Pezet (1913–2009), American-born French artist
• Geneviève Savalette (1735–1795), French playwright and actress
• Genevieve Schatz, American singer
• Geneviève Serreau (1915–1981), French stage actress and playwright
• Geneviève Simard (born 1980), Canadian alpine skier
• Genevieve Valentine (born 1981), American science fiction and fantasy writer
• Geneviève Vergez-Tricom (1889–1966), French geographer and historian
• Genevieve M. Walton (1857–1932), American librarian
• Genevieve Westcott (1955–2020), New Zealand journalist and television presenter
• Genevieve Woo (born 1969), Singaporean television news presenter

Fictional characters

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• Genevieve, a vintage car, title character of the British film Genevieve
• Genevieve, the dog in Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Princess Genevieve, main protagonist in the animated film Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
• Genevieve Atkinson in the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Genevieve Delacroix in the Netflix television series Bridgerton
• Geneviève Emery in the French film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, played by Catherine Deneuve
• Genevieve Selsor in the book The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Genevieve Villard in CrossGen Comics' Sigilverse
• Geneviève from Emily in Paris
• Geneviève in the movie Rush Hour 3
• "Sweet Lady Genevieve", a 1973 song by the Kinks
• Genevieve from To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
• Genevieve Mirren-Carter, in the American TV show Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Genevieve, helicopter on display in Air and Space Museum Bell Model 30 Ship 1A
• Genevieve Mercier, protagonist of Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
• Geneviève, from the short story "The Mask", published in The King in Yellow
• Genevieve Terhoven, from The Black Obelisk

References

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1. ^ Katie Martin-Doyle, The Treasury of Baby Names, Worth Press, Cambridge 2005. ISBN 978-1903025116
2. ^ Moss, Jennifer. "Genevieve". babynames.com. Moss Gathering LLC. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

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