Quint
Masculine · “fifth”
Quint is a Roman first name with its Latin ending removed, which English does to very few of them. The most consequential man to carry it in full won a war by declining to fight one, and his family name became an English adjective for exactly that strategy.
How old is the name Quint?
Quint first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Quint alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 600 people named Quint are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Quint most popular?
Quint peaked in 1964, reaching #806 nationally. See the whole 1964 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Quintus to Quint
The story of Quint
After Hannibal destroyed two Roman armies in successive years, Rome appointed Quintus Fabius Maximus dictator, and he adopted a strategy nobody liked: shadow the enemy, hold the high ground, cut off foragers, refuse every offer of battle. It was humiliating, it was unpopular, his own second-in-command was given equal command as a rebuke, and the nickname Cunctator, the delayer, was originally an insult. Then the Romans ignored him, met Hannibal at Cannae and lost fifty thousand men in an afternoon, after which the strategy looked considerably better and the nickname became an honorific. Two thousand years later a group of English socialists named themselves after him to signal that they intended to win by patience rather than revolution, and the word Fabian has meant that ever since.
Meaning
fifth
One of a small set of Roman first names built on numbers. What they originally counted is not recoverable — a month of birth and a position among siblings have both been proposed — and by the time the names are well attested they were simply hereditary.
How the name formed
- Quintus
- Quint
Related forms: Quinto · Quinto · Quentin
Pronouncing Quint
KWINT
One syllable. The qu is said kw, as it is in every English word that has it, and nothing about the name needs explaining.
Nicknames for Quint
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1959
- Most boys named
- 196488 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #806reached in 1964
- Change vs 2023
- −14.3%6 in 2024, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Quint in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Quinto in Italian — same name
- Quinto in Spanish — same name
- Quentin in French — related form
Quints among us
people named Quint are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Quint sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- One syllable is short, clear and carries across a room.
- Five letters with no silent ones make it impossible to misspell after hearing it.
- The meaning is documented and immediately understandable.
- Quinn and Quentin will both be written for it.
- It reads as a shortened form even though it is complete.
- A shark film gave one character the name and the association is a strong one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Quints are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Quint are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Quint in 2025?
- Quint is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Quint with classmates?
- Quint will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More Q names
The most-given names starting with Q, all years combined.
Quentin#965 · Quinn#466 · Quinton#973 · Quincy#652 · Quintin#1886 · Quinten#2183 · Quenton#7194 · Quinlan#3848
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