In Croatia, Gentili families are Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Opatija area.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Gentili live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Srebreno in Dubrovnik area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.