Jentry
#5,474 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jentry has been given to 1,498 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #5,474 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 61 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% girls, 28% boys all-time.
Babies named Jentry, 2025
1 in 144,000
Jentry over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jentry over time
In 2025, Jentry went to 66% girls and 34% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jentry?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,474
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jentry sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jentry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jentrys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jentry was born before 2013 — so the typical Jentry is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,075
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (444).
Is Jentry 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
- −262
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,483
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,745
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.56×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 37.7%
- Peak was 2018 (61)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Jentry
Jentry is not the most common spelling — Jenny is, with 77.2% against Jentry's 0.90%.
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.
Where Jentry is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Jentry was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 78,313 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jentry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Jentry is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Jentry was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,450,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jentry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jentry by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jentry
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jentry
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.