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gent Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: nickname, possibly sometimes applied ironically, from Middle English gente, Old French gent(il) ‘well born’, ‘noble’, ‘courteous’. Compare Gentle.
  2. German and English: habitational name for someone from Ghent in Flanders, French name Gand.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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gent Family Facts

Distribution of gent Families in the US in 1920
Number of gent families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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