Is this name usable

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Gentry after the Band The Gentrys

Nope, sorry to be blunt but it's not really a first name but an uncommon surname - or a word synonymous with "posh" (as in "landed gentry") so won't have positive associations for some people.

I mean …. … why are you asking? What’s put it on your head as name for a human?

Are the band related to the country singer Bobbie Gentry?
(Ode to Billy Joe)
I suppose it's a surname, but...
what everyone else said.

Gentry Stein is a world famous yo-yo champion. So yes it actually is a name.

No! Landed Gentry,

Gents for short?

Or stick to the safer Balonz.

@NeilTheBaby

Gentry Stein is a world famous yo-yo champion. So yes it actually is a name.

One person having the name doesn't make it a name, just makes his parents as daft as OP.

the meanings of the word gentry

@NeilTheBaby

Gentry Stein is a world famous yo-yo champion. So yes it actually is a name.

Sounds like a barber shop not a child

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.

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.

Nope

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.

Absurd. Definitely not.

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

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

@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...

Of course not, it’s completely ridiculous.

@astoundedgoat

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

I'd have thought the siblings would be more like Kentigarin and Augustus

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

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

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

No

Christ no