# Gentry (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gentry/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,064 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,287 / 2,777 (39% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 67 | 2,645 |
| 2012 | 127 | 1,675 |
| 2013 | 104 | 1,921 |
| 2014 | 103 | 1,945 |
| 2015 | 112 | 1,843 |
| 2016 | 110 | 1,869 |
| 2017 | 109 | 1,867 |
| 2018 | 151 | 1,454 |
| 2019 | 128 | 1,648 |
| 2020 | 123 | 1,669 |
| 2021 | 137 | 1,536 |
| 2022 | 117 | 1,767 |
| 2023 | 98 | 2,005 |
| 2024 | 73 | 2,472 |
| 2025 | 94 | 2,025 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 58 | 2,242 |
| 2012 | 90 | 1,690 |
| 2013 | 91 | 1,663 |
| 2014 | 115 | 1,438 |
| 2015 | 97 | 1,644 |
| 2016 | 97 | 1,647 |
| 2017 | 112 | 1,500 |
| 2018 | 131 | 1,358 |
| 2019 | 150 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 133 | 1,345 |
| 2021 | 166 | 1,185 |
| 2022 | 138 | 1,355 |
| 2023 | 129 | 1,418 |
| 2024 | 107 | 1,603 |
| 2025 | 88 | 1,813 |

## People named Gentry

- Gentry Lee, American writer and engineer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.