Genie

Genie is an English name that originated as a short form of Eugenia or Virginia, both ultimately rooted in Greek and Latin respectively. Eugenia derives from the Greek word for "well-born," while Virginia traces to the Latin clan name Verginius. The name gained widespread cultural familiarity through the 1960s American television series I Dream of Jeannie, whose lead character's name was spelled differently but pronounced identically, and through the common English word genie denoting a wish-granting spirit borrowed from Arabic jinn. Related forms include Jean, Jeanie, Gena, and Gene.