Gentian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gentian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 6.7K
- ITItaly≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Albania (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,868 people
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gentian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #121 | 2,868 | 1 in 1.1K | 2.9K | Gentian | 62 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 1 | Gentian | 28 |
| XK Kosovo | #569 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 1.2K | Gentian | 6 |
| US United States | — | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 272 | Gentian | 85 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Gentian | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 35 | 1 in 60K | 36 | Gentian | 2 |
2,868 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gentian is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gentian Hervetusb. 1499FRFrench theologian and humanist (1499–1584)
- Gentian Lulanib. 1972ALAlbanian artist
- Gentian Stojkub. 1974ALAlbanian association football player
- Gentian Koçib. 1979ALAlbanian film director
- Gentjan Muçab. 1987ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian footballer
- Gentian DenasITresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.9K | #109 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.2K | #609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 272 | #30,390 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2000 | 78 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1996 | 71 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1997 | 70 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1995 | 66 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2001 | 64 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2004 | 57 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2002 | 56 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1998 | 56 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1994 | 53 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Gentian a male or female name?
- Gentian is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gentian have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Gentian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gentian.
- Where is Gentian most common?
- Gentian is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gentian?
- In Albania, the national register counted 2,868 people named Gentian, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Gentian compared with other names?
- In Albania, Gentian is the 121st most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gentianThe 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, “Gentian” — the 121st most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.