Quintin
Masculine · “fifth”
Quintin is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 15,558 boys against 7 girls since 1880.
Quintin is Roman bookkeeping made a name — Quintus meant the fifth, and Roman families numbered their sons when they ran out of ideas.
How old is the name Quintin?
Quintin first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Quintin alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 14,500 people named Quintin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Quintin most popular?
Quintin peaked in 1990, reaching #502 nationally. Today it ranks #1886, 1,384 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From quintus to Quintin
The story of Quintin
Saint Quentin was a third-century Roman missionary martyred in Gaul, and the French town of Saint-Quentin is named for him. The name reached England with the Normans. Quintin and Quentin are both used; Quintin is closer to the Latin. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
fifth
From the Latin quintus, 'fifth', through the derived Quintinus. Roman praenomina included Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius and Decimus — third through tenth — and were often given by birth order or birth month. The Latin is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- quintus
- Quintinus
- Quintin
Related forms: Quentin · Quintín · Quinten
Pronouncing Quintin
KWIN-tin
Two syllables, stress on the first. French Quentin is kon-TAN with a nasal ending.
Nicknames for Quintin
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
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 1997405 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #502reached in 1990
- Change vs 2023
- −32.0%83 in 2025, from 122
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.
Quintin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Quentin in French — spelling variant
- Quintín in Spanish — related form
- Quinten in Dutch — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania.
Quintins among us
people named Quintin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 20,579 born in 2025 was named Quintin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Robb test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Quintin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Robb climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Robb's path sketches the road Quintin is walking now.
Quintin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Quintin is headed
Quintin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Quintin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Quintin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Roman numbering system behind it is a genuinely interesting naming practice.
- Quin is available as a short form with a real record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Quentin is much the commoner spelling in America.
- The meaning is a number, which some families will find plain.
- It reads as slightly formal.
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Masculine · #1886 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Quintins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,500 people named Quintin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Quintin in 2025?
- Quintin ranks #1886 among US boy names in 2025, with 83 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Quintin?
- About 1 in every 20,579 US boys born in 2025 was named Quintin — 83 in all.
- Will my child share the name Quintin with classmates?
- Quintin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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