How rare is the name Gentry?

4,693 people in the United States have the first name Gentry, about 1 in 64,358. It ranks #4,106 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GENTRY

#4,106

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,693
About
1 in 64,358
This common or more
83.6%
Who bears it

Of the 4,693 people named Gentry, 81.2% reported their origin as White, 9% as Black and 4.3% as two or more races. 55.7% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Gentry peaked in 2021, when 303 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18842025
Peak year
2021
Births that year
303
In 2025*
182 ▼40%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 7,064 babies have been given the name since 1884. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Gentry by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #2,015. The largest share of babies named Gentry, 42.7%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#3,1215
1900s#3,98713
1910s#3,550128
1920s#3,712181
1930s#3,766147
1940s#4,044147
1950s#4,252175
1960s#3,971238
1970s#3,375404
1980s#3,181557
1990s#3,544663
2000s#3,542916
2010s#2,1462,087
2020s#2,0151,403
Before 19010.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–274%
Silent Generation 1928–453.9%
Baby boom 1946–645%
Generation X 1965–808.2%
Millennials 1981–9613.6%
Generation Z 1997–1222.5%
2013 and later42.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Gentry is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Gentry has been most common in Oklahoma (9.2×), Utah (7.2×), and Kansas (5×), and least common in Ohio (0.27×).

2,477 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Gentry

#4,104 Mariella · 4,697#4,105 Jenn · 4,695#4,107 Aleta · 4,691#4,107 Elsy · 4,691

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Gentry, most common first.

#40,470 Gentri · 184

Also a last name

As a last name, Gentry ranks #821 of 156,621, with 41,191 people. See Gentry as a last name

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