Genet
zhen-ay
French
"broom (shrub); or descended from John or Eugene"Share
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Genet Origin and Meaning
The name Genet is a boy's name of African origin meaning "broom (shrub); or descended from John or Eugene".
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.
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- Jean GenetFrench novelist/dramatist