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Gentiana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gentiana has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 1996, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Gentiana, 2007

1 in 666,000

Gentiana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gentiana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gentiana means

Gentiana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gentiana is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Gentiana between 1996 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1996; its best national rank was #12,344 in 1996.

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 Gentiana?

Gentiana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gentiana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 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 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gentiana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gentianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gentiana was born before 2001 — so the typical Gentiana is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Gentiana 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 1996 (6)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,344
1996

Gentiana around the world

Where Gentiana 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
    1998–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • France
    1993–1993
    #3,845
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gentiana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#12,344
1996
Peak year
1996
6 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gentiana

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

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Sibling names for Gentiana

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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