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The Gentilini surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 332 people carried this name — #60,636 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 5% from 317 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Gentilini surname

Diminutive of Gentili.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Gentilini» (Italian), 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 451 people named Gentilini 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.

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Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 218
City of Buenos Aires 66
Córdoba 55
Tucumán 51
Santa Fe 46
Santiago del Estero 15

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 233 people named Gentilini.

31 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 29 départements, most often Oise.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 31
Oise 28
Aisne 28
Paris 25
Var 16
Corsica 15
Hautes-Alpes 10
Yvelines 9
Nord 8

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

79 people named Gentilini live in Switzerland.

They live in 6 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

Ticino 45
Vaud 17
Geneva 6
Zurich 5
Neuchâtel 3
Thurgau 3

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.

Who carried it

People named Gentilini,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Franco Gentilini
    Franco Gentilini 1909–1981 · illustrator
  • Eugenio Gentilini 1500–1599 · engineer
  • Eugenio Gentilini 1529–1599 · engineer
  • Giovanni Battista Gentilini 1745–1816 · teacher
  • Francesco Gentilini 1782–1856 · Catholic priest
  • Luigi Gentilini 1812–1900 · politician

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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