Gentry — #1597 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Gentry

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,199 babies named Gentry between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gentry currently holds the #1597 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 166 babies received it in a single year. Gentry is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,683 additional births since 1934.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gentry performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,003 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Gentry shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 327 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Gentry in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gentry in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,199 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.