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Genet
OriginFrench
Meaning"broom (shrub); or descended from John or Eugene"
About Genet
A relatively common French surname associated with sometimes scandalous French novelist/dramatist Jean Genet. The name may derive from genêt, the French name for the broom shrub. Alternatively, it can derive from the French forms of Eugene, John or Janet as an ancestral surname.
Pronounced juh-NAY.
Editor's take: The name Genet is a boy's name of African origin meaning "broom (shrub); or descended from John or Eugene".
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