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Is this name usable

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Forumsforfun · 10/11/2021 23:08

Gentry after the Band The Gentrys

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MadeOfStarStuff · 25/11/2021 19:23

Absolutely not

GreyhoundG1rl · 24/11/2021 19:43

@OakPine

Yeah it's a great name! Go for it! Can I call my child "Wardrobe" Can I call my child "Ringbinder" Hell yes! I know I know "Goldfish!"

Where will this end?

Indeed...
katem22 · 22/11/2021 21:44

So according to the web...

"Gentry as a boy's name is of English origin, and the meaning of Gentry is "of gentle, good breeding, or high social position"."

But that said, I'd still vote no.

TuftyMarmoset · 11/11/2021 23:10

If you have to ask, the answer is usually no. And this is a no.

Luredbyapomegranate · 11/11/2021 22:56

Nope

liveforsummer · 11/11/2021 21:27

Ridiculous- sorry OP. And 100% agreement from posters. Not sure I've seen that before!

WakeUpLockie · 11/11/2021 20:39

Do not do it.

MrsFoxyplease · 11/11/2021 20:32

I'd not

cowburp · 11/11/2021 20:31

No
What about Gary?

Thepennysjustdropped · 11/11/2021 20:28

@Astoundedgoat actually, Zoflora is really pretty!

RusholmeRuffian · 11/11/2021 16:27

Christ no

RuthW · 11/11/2021 16:25

No

Irishfarmer · 11/11/2021 14:53

I think enough people have said no, but ah.... no!

Lockdownbear · 11/11/2021 14:52

Sorry I'm on the wrong thread- I thought I was on the Aloyisus thread.

verymiddleaged · 11/11/2021 14:52

As in landed?
I think if you are part of the aristocracy you don't actually need to self identify in your given name.

Lockdownbear · 11/11/2021 14:50

@astoundedgoat

With siblings called Toff, Aristo and maybe go straight to the point with little Upper Class? Grin
I'd have thought the siblings would be more like Kentigarin and Augustus
ThePoisonousMushroom · 11/11/2021 14:49

Of course not, it’s completely ridiculous.

astoundedgoat · 11/11/2021 14:48

@Thepennysjustdropped

No. The kid will have a lifetime of "What?" and will hate you. You'll get fed up with hearing "What?" and will wish you'd called him Oliver. I see it with my friends who called their DS something that sounds like a variety of kitchen cleaner.
lol - I'm imagining Zoflora here - I BET there is a poor little girl burdened with that name somewhere out there...
astoundedgoat · 11/11/2021 14:47

With siblings called Toff, Aristo and maybe go straight to the point with little Upper Class? Grin

stingofthebutterfly · 11/11/2021 14:42

Surely you don't need to ask others how utterly ridiculous it is.

MrsGeralt · 11/11/2021 14:18

Absurd. Definitely not.

Thepennysjustdropped · 11/11/2021 14:14

No. The kid will have a lifetime of "What?" and will hate you. You'll get fed up with hearing "What?" and will wish you'd called him Oliver. I see it with my friends who called their DS something that sounds like a variety of kitchen cleaner.

ppan4454 · 11/11/2021 14:10

Nope

NeilTheBaby · 11/11/2021 14:09

According to BabyCenter as a girl's name Gentry ranked #2231 and as a boy's name #1607 so while uncommon clearly a name and used by some.

NeilTheBaby · 11/11/2021 14:05

Might not make it common but every name has to be used for a first time.

Gentry Stein is famous so there's bound to now be other Gentrys about, even if he was the first, which I doubt.

I don't think it's a good name, but that's for the op to decide.