The surname Gent
A surname, carried by 2,199 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex G530
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,199 people named Gent in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,403 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,025.
#13,759
rank among US surnames
2,199
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+8.6%
change since 2000 (was #13,724)
Who is named Gent
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Gent identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Gent has the Soundex code G530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G530.
Questions
- How common is the surname Gent?
- 2,199 people in the United States had the surname Gent in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,403 Americans. It ranked 13,759th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gent?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Gent identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Gent getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,025 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,199 in 2010, up 8.6%.