Quintavious
Masculine
Quintavious begins with a Roman number. The Romans named children by counting them, and the counting stopped matching the children long before the names went out of use.
How old is the name Quintavious?
Quintavious first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Quintavious alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 800 people named Quintavious are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Quintavious most popular?
Quintavious peaked in 2000, reaching #2049 nationally. See the whole 2000 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Quintavious
Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, Decimus: fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, tenth. Roman families really did name sons by birth order, and then kept using the names after the arithmetic stopped working — a man called Sextus was frequently not the sixth of anything, because the name had been in the family and was reused. Within a few generations the numbers were simply names, as meaningless as any others, which is what happens to every descriptive naming system given enough time. American naming reached for the sound of those names without the system, and built something with a Latin front, a Latin-looking ending and no Latin grammar holding it together.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is the Latin word for fifth, which was a genuine Roman first name. The ending is an American suffix modeled on Latin names rather than taken from one. The compound is modern and means nothing in Latin.
Pronouncing Quintavious
kwin-TAY-vee-us
Four syllables with the stress on the second. The qu is said kw, as English requires.
Nicknames for Quintavious
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
- 1984
- Most boys named
- 200049 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2049reached in 2000
- Change vs 2022
- +50.0%9 in 2023, from 6
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.
Quintavious in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia.
Quintaviouss among us
people named Quintavious 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
Quintavious 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
- It is long, formal-sounding and almost certainly unique in any room.
- It shortens in two directions, both of them usable.
- The sounds are all ordinary English.
- Four syllables will be cut down immediately in any classroom.
- It looks Latin and is not, which somebody will eventually point out.
- There is no meaning in the compound, only in the front.
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Frequently asked
- How many Quintaviouss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Quintavious are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Quintavious in 2025?
- Quintavious is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Quintavious with classmates?
- Quintavious 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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