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I don't care for it at all. I took care of a baby girl named Genesis Noelle (born in the summer, btw) who had a sister named Trinity. I didn't know much about the parents, but in name alone, most assumed they were unintelligent rednecks. Sorry. Also, a lot of the other nurses assumed Genesis was a boy for some reason. Not sure why. The first time I heard it was on a lesbian on MTV's Real World (which is a show FULL of people with "unique" names, apparently).

Hmmm ... I'd assume they were Christian fundamentalists and had chosen a name they felt would advertise that. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if they aren't fundamentalists, it's a big assumption to have people making. Alternatively, they might just have liked the sound or the symbolic ideas expressed in Genesis.

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Genesis Atarah (a-tahr-a) would be very pretty.

To me, Genesis is a word not a name. I especially don't like the hiss at the end. I like Genny a lot though and would use it as a full name.

Well, to be perfectly honest...not meaning to be harsh but this is what I think of it. Although I know it's a generic word for the beginning or creation of anything, in non-Biblical contexts it is a bit of a technical term, and not suitable as a name. The big problem I have with it is that, in the contemporary US where I am anyway, it tangentially suggests a fundamentalist creationist belief. I think in the current climate that's a very controversial concept to address or suggest in a person's name, even if it's just inadvertently because you think the word sounds pretty. I would not much relish addressing a woman as "Genesis."

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At any rate it's too fanciful for me. I figure that most often, it's used as an attempt to be more unusual than Genevieve or Ginevra or Geneva, while keeping a lot of the appealing sound (although it adds an unfortunate hissing syllable at the end). At least it nicknames to Genny.

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- chazda

I really don't particularly like the name either. It seems like a trendy name. Just not my style.

def not my style.

def not my style.