Gentry

At the 2020 census, 41,191 Americans bore the surname Gentry — 821st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,256.

By the numbers

People: 41,191
Rank: 821st
How common: 1 in 7,256
Per 100,000: 13.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gentry described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 11.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gentry

Bobbie Gentry (born 1942)American singer-songwriter
Antonia Gentry (born 1998)American actress
Alvin Gentry (born 1954)American basketball coach
Alwyn Howard Gentry (1945–1993)American botanist

People named Gentry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gentry

Also a first name

Gentry has been given to 7,064 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.