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'". Genevieve can also mean "woman of the family".
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People with this name
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
Geneviève Biron, Canadian civil servant in Quebec
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 Guitel (1895–1982), French mathematician and historian of mathematics
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
Geneviève Jourdain (1945–2006), engineer, professor and researcher, worked on development of signal processing
Gen Kitchen, British politician
Geneviève Lacambre (born 1937), French heritage curator
Genevieve Lipsett (1885–1935) – Canadian journalist, teacher and suffragist
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 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
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