as a Last Name
- 2,393
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Fentress
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: variant of Ventress, itself a variant of Venters, a nickname for a daring person, from Middle English aventurous ‘bold’, ‘venturesome’.
| 12,847th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,393
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Fentress per capita
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