Gentry

boys’ name · 61%girls’ name · 39%At its peak · modern nameCompare

Gentry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 107 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1070.01% of boys
Peak year: 2021166 births
Best rank: —never in the top 1,000
Since 1884: 6,882people given the name

Babies named Gentry, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

4,199 boys have been named Gentry in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 166 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2010s alone account for 24%.

Gentry is used for both sexes: 39% of its bearers are girls (2,683), most of them born around 2018.

By decade

Decade	boys named Gentry
1880s	5
1900s	13
1910s	128
1920s	181
1930s	142
1940s	142
1950s	175
1960s	232
1970s	300
1980s	319
1990s	380
2000s	506
2010s	1,003
2020s	673

In 2021, its biggest year

Gentry was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Gentry

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.