The GENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,025	13724	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	509	9515	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+1516	-4209	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	434	3654	0.003	27
United Kingdom	3,489	1794	0.008	76

Top States for GENT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	172	11282	0.001	11
Texas	137	12750	0.001	7
Illinois	128	10963	0.001	10
New York	117	16963	0.001	6
California	116	21324	0.000	3
Top States for GENT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oregon	98	4787	0.003	29
Iowa	74	6484	0.003	25
West Virginia	42	4457	0.002	23
Tennessee	91	6615	0.002	16
Washington	83	9273	0.001	14

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GENT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GENT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GENT in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GENT by picking someone at random in Oregon than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GENT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GENT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GENT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GENT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	167	8.25
Mixed Race	30	1.48
White (Hispanic)	23	1.14
Asian/Pacific	10	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.4
White (Caucasian)	1,787	88.25

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GENT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to GENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GENT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.