Gentilé
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gentilé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Shrops and Staffs; also. see Jenner . • Current frequencies: GB 223, Ireland 12 • GB frequency 1881: 12 • Main GB location 1881: Kent; Dunbartons English: see Gentle .
- USUnited States1 in 22K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.2K
- ARArgentina1 in 8K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
14,873 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gentile in US United States, CH Switzerland, BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Shrops and Staffs; also. see Jenner . • Current frequencies: GB 223, Ireland 12 • GB frequency 1881: 12 • Main GB location 1881: Kent; Dunbartons English: see Gentle .
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gentilé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 14,873 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Gentile | 180 |
| AR Argentina | 5,683 | 1 in 8K | 5.7K | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 805 | 1 in 4.2K | 805 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 660 | 1 in 13K | 660 | Gentile | 23 |
| BE Belgium | 420 | 1 in 28K | 479 | Gentile | 33 |
14,873 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gentilé mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Shrops and Staffs; also. see Jenner . • Current frequencies: GB 223, Ireland 12 • GB frequency 1881: 12 • Main GB location 1881: Kent; Dunbartons English: see Gentle . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 5 other sources.
- Is Gentilé a male or female name?
- Gentilé is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gentilé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Gentilé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gentile.
- Where is Gentilé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gentilé is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gentilé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,873 people named Gentilé in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gentil%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gentilé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.