Kentish
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kentish (man), influenced by OE Centisc; first attested William Centeis c1165 Bury (Sf)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɛntɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kentish is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 18K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kentish itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
205 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кентиш in UA Ukraine.
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)
Kentish (man), influenced by OE Centisc; first attested William Centeis c1165 Bury (Sf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kentish 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 | 205 | 1 in 1.6M | 212 | — | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | 19 | 1 in 268K | 19 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 8 | 1 in 9.3K | 8 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Кентиш | 7 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | — |
205 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 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Kentish is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The dialect of Modern English spoken in Kent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a different form of Kent
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Richard Kentishb. 1730English physician
- John Kentishb. 1768English Unitarian minister (1768-1853)
- John Kentishb. 1910GBBritish opera singer (1910-2006)
- Rupert Kentishb. 1914AUAustralian politician
- Esmond Kentishb. 1916JMJamaican cricketer (1916-2011)
- Oliver Kentishb. 1954GBBritish musician
- Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogersb. 1993AIAthlete and winner of the British Beauty Contest
- Sandra E. KentishAUchemical engineer and researcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 212 | #92,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 205 | #90,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 167 | #100,194 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 19 | #3,711 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #219 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 3 | #179 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Kentish mean, and where does it come from?
- Kentish (man), influenced by OE Centisc; first attested William Centeis c1165 Bury (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Kentish?
- A machine transcription gives /kɛntɪʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kentish have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 205 people named Kentish, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kentish most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kentish is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 9.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kentish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 205 people named Kentish in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kentishThe 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, “Kentish”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.