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Gent

Boys' name

Possibly to produce, through Gentius

Gent has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Gent, 2023

1 in 663,000

Gent over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gent: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to produce, through Gentius

Illyrian

What Gent means

Gent belongs to the name family reached through Gent → Gentius. Its meaning is “to produce”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gent is used in Albanian. Its origins include Illyrian.

Gent comes through Latin Gentius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gentius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 boys were recorded with the name Gent between 1915 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,049 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gent?

Gent had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gent sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gent. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gents were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gent was born before 2013 — so the typical Gent is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Gent rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (7)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,049
1915

Spellings of Gent

Gent is not the most common spelling — Glenn is, with 20.9% against Gent's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gent around the world

Where Gent ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2006
    #2,870
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Gent by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,049
1915
Peak year
2005
7 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gent

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GenuineGenGeniusGenardGenjiDentGeneroQuentGenieVentGenkiBryentGennadyGennieGentleVyncentGenovevoGenoLentGenerosoTalentGenghisGenevaGenner

Sibling names for Gent

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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