Jentry
Jentry is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,474 among girls’ names and #6,979 among boys’, #7,177 among all names counting both); 1,498 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Jentry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jentry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jentry?
#5,474 among girls’ names, 2025
Jentry fell from #3,729 in 2015 to #5,474 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 14.3 per million.
78 babies in 2018, the peak
Jentry peaked in 2018, when 78 babies were given it (61 girls, #2,797 among girls’ names). The 35 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,474 | 12 | #6,979 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,212 | 12 | #7,012 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,921 | 14 | #6,331 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,519 | 20 | #4,921 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,313 | 21 | #4,692 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,991 | 15 | #5,823 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,685 | 18 | #5,242 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,797 | 17 | #5,405 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,327 | 14 | #6,165 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,201 | 12 | #6,905 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,729 | 31 | #3,550 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,615 | 17 | #5,358 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,098 | 14 | #6,052 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,079 | 16 | #5,581 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,955 | 14 | #6,076 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,664 | 9 | #8,416 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,412 | 7 | #10,355 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,547 | 12 | #6,947 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,225 | 9 | #8,512 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,801 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,654 | 6 | #10,688 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,919 | 9 | #7,822 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,026 | 10 | #6,950 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,249 | 13 | #5,541 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,453 | 7 | #8,702 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,950 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,461 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,292 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,000 | 9 | #6,322 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,438 | 5 | #9,666 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,343 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,123 | 10 | #5,640 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,307 | 5 | #9,373 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,223 | 10 | #5,399 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,222 | 6 | #7,690 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,378 | 8 | #6,084 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,174 | 12 | #4,383 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,431 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,064 | 5 | #7,481 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,336 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,701 | 5 | #7,008 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,669 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,013 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,092 | 8 | #4,788 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,023 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,019 | 6 | #5,861 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,490 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,969 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,147 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jentry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,498 Americans recorded as Jentry, 72% are girls and 28% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jentry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jentry, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,498 Americans ever recorded as Jentry. The median Jentry alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,157 people named Jentry (800 women and girls, 357 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 442 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 758 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jentry born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,531 | 1.0× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jentry with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,936 babies since 1880, Jentry is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 44 babies (80%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jentry
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jentry and names like it
- Compare Jentry and JentriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJentry peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jentry since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Jentry.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jentry alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.