The Gentili surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 186 people carried this name — #97,671 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is down 39% from 306 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Gentili surname
A surname from Italian.
Borrowed from Italian Gentili.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Gentili» (Portuguese), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,583 people named Gentili live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 234 people named Gentili.
71 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 29 départements, most often Corsica.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
83 people named Gentili live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
26 people named Gentili is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Gentili,
with a public archive behind them.
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Renato Gentili 1538–1599 · writer -
Alberico Gentili 1552–1608 · lawyer -
Scipione Gentili 1563–1616 · jurist -
Angelo Gentili d. 1840 · painter
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Paolo Gentili 1001–1106 · prelate
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Camilla Gentili 1450–1486
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gentili.
- Gent 2,199 · U.S. census
- Genta 243 · U.S. census
- Genter 668 · U.S. census
- Gentes 402 · U.S. census
- Gentil 408 · U.S. census
- Gentile 14,873 · U.S. census
- Gentilini 332 · U.S. census
- Gentis 290 · U.S. census
- Gentner 2,031 · U.S. census
- Genton 183 · U.S. census
- Genty 159 · U.S. census
- Geoffrion 529 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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