Gentry
Gentry is a boy's name that peaked in 2021, when it was the 1,182nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,808th. About 6,300 Gentrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gentry boys named Gentry
Girls and boys called Gentry
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,777 girls and 4,287 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 94 to 88.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 64 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,064
- Estimated living today
- 6,300
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,182nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,808th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 2,777 / 4,287
How old the living Gentrys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,064 babies given the name since 1884, about 6,300 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 230 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Gentrys
- Gentry Lee (born 1942)American writer and engineer
People named Gentry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gentry is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gentry is most concentrated in Oklahoma (9.2×), Utah (7.2×), Kansas (5.0×), Texas (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Gentry peaked:
Related names
Gentry against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.