Yenty
Girl · YEN-tee · Latin
Yenty is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “noble, gentle”. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Yenty mean?
Latin: spelling of Yiddish Yente, from Romance gentile, from Latin gentilis
“noble, gentle”
Yente was a common Yiddish name; Yentl is its diminutive, as in Isaac Bashevis Singer's story Yentl the Yeshiva Boy.
- Say it
- YEN-tee
Is Yenty a girl's or a boy's name?
Yenty is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yenty in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 54% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Yenty, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Yenty in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yenty in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
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