Meaning not yet researched.
Gentry: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,454 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,454 in 2018; #2,025 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Gentry in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,025 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,454.
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Gentry: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,454 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 151 (2018).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Gentry, making it the 2,025th most common girls’ name of the year, up 447 places from #2,472 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 73 girls named Gentry in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,454, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 151. For comparison, it was #1,843 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Gentry, making it the 1,813th most common boys’ name of the year, down 210 places from #1,603 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 107 boys named Gentry in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,031, reached in 1884. The most boys given the name in a single year was 166, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,644 in 2015 and #2,864 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gentry in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 7,064 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,087 babies named Gentry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,140 US girls were named Gentry; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gentry ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #457 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Gentri, Gentrie and Gentree are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gentri (145), Gentrie (71), Gentree (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gentry in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 9 | #457 | #197 |
| Kansas | 6 | #526 | #424 |
| Missouri | 8 | #676 | #773 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,117 | #1,103 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,097 | #1,284 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,025 | 88 | #1,813 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,472 | 107 | #1,603 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,005 | 129 | #1,418 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,767 | 138 | #1,355 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,536 | 166 | #1,185 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,669 | 133 | #1,345 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,648 | 150 | #1,253 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,454 | 131 | #1,358 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,867 | 112 | #1,500 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,869 | 97 | #1,647 |
| 2015 | 112 | #1,843 | 97 | #1,644 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,945 | 115 | #1,438 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,921 | 91 | #1,663 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,675 | 90 | #1,690 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,645 | 58 | #2,242 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,523 | 62 | #2,156 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,212 | 57 | #2,301 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,781 | 62 | #2,168 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,801 | 54 | #2,389 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,950 | 39 | #2,894 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,827 | 54 | #2,216 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,754 | 47 | #2,388 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,619 | 53 | #2,113 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,104 | 44 | #2,347 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,251 | 61 | #1,827 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,701 | 35 | #2,642 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,528 | 43 | #2,180 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,515 | 24 | #3,224 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,743 | 31 | #2,569 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,351 | 34 | #2,351 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,812 | 33 | #2,370 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,389 | 43 | #1,942 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,908 | 40 | #2,025 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,709 | 42 | #1,936 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,381 | 46 | #1,751 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,746 | 44 | #1,788 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,047 | 40 | #1,870 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,935 | 31 | #2,056 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,550 | 48 | #1,491 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,677 | 37 | #1,703 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,551 | 28 | #2,036 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,009 | 24 | #2,194 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,333 | 26 | #2,041 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,449 | 22 | #2,295 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,556 | 28 | #1,963 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,244 | 35 | #1,669 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,194 | 40 | #1,498 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,674 | 31 | #1,735 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,622 | 26 | #1,922 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,708 | 20 | #2,271 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,410 | 27 | #1,804 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,211 | 28 | #1,719 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,265 | 27 | #1,712 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,140 | 24 | #1,842 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,840 | 35 | #1,449 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,584 | 42 | #1,284 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,905 | 24 | #1,701 |
| 1968 | — | — | 27 | #1,525 |
| 1967 | — | — | 24 | #1,584 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,779 |
| 1965 | — | — | 14 | #2,210 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,629 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,603 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,069 |
| 1961 | — | — | 32 | #1,417 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,563 |
| 1959 | — | — | 18 | #1,934 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,791 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,692 |
| 1956 | — | — | 18 | #1,906 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,351 |
| 1954 | — | — | 23 | #1,607 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,135 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,107 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,499 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,864 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #1,973 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,675 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,810 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,910 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,805 | 11 | #2,170 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,028 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,862 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #1,983 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,846 |
| 1940 | — | — | 16 | #1,755 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,102 |
| 1938 | — | — | 17 | #1,712 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,252 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,836 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,868 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,536 | 13 | #2,057 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,431 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,239 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,730 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,717 |
| 1929 | — | — | 19 | #1,751 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,785 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,486 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,649 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,282 |
| 1923 | — | — | 21 | #1,716 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,082 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,603 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,170 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #2,006 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,420 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,929 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,192 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,732 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,903 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,855 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,457 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,613 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,546 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,052 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,031 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).