Quentin
Quentin was given to 238 boys in 2025, #968 among boys’ names; 43,662 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 37,400 Americans named Quentin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 42.
Quentin dropped 184 places in 2025, the #12 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quentin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Quentin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Quentin is “a male given name from Latin.”
Also “a female given name from Latin occasionally used.”
From Old French. The name of a third century French martyr, from Latin Quīntīnus, a derivative of the Roman praenomen Quīntus, from quīntus (“fifth”). It was brought to England by the Normans, but never became particularly popular. Compare Quinton.
/ˈkwɛntɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Quentin?
#968 among boys’ names, 2025
Quentin fell from #484 in 2015 to #968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.32 to 0.14 per 1,000.
1,052 babies in 1998, the peak
Quentin peaked in 1998, when 1,052 boys were given it, #273 among boys’ names. The 238 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 238 | #968 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 321 | #784 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 336 | #769 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 420 | #656 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 547 | #539 | 0.31 |
| 2020 | 528 | #533 | 0.31 |
| 2019 | 468 | #591 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 519 | #543 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 526 | #540 | 0.28 |
| 2016 | 635 | #484 | 0.33 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 616 | #484 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 619 | #470 | 0.32 |
| 2013 | 731 | #406 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 630 | #440 | 0.33 |
| 2011 | 697 | #405 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 714 | #396 | 0.37 |
| 2009 | 808 | #377 | 0.41 |
| 2008 | 811 | #379 | 0.40 |
| 2007 | 820 | #374 | 0.40 |
| 2006 | 881 | #347 | 0.43 |
| 2005 | 913 | #332 | 0.46 |
| 2004 | 914 | #330 | 0.46 |
| 2003 | 835 | #339 | 0.42 |
| 2002 | 778 | #351 | 0.40 |
| 2001 | 764 | #351 | 0.39 |
| 2000 | 872 | #325 | 0.44 |
| 1999 | 866 | #322 | 0.45 |
| 1998 | 1,052 | #273 | 0.55 |
| 1997 | 993 | #282 | 0.53 |
| 1996 | 965 | #284 | 0.51 |
| 1995 | 900 | #295 | 0.47 |
| 1994 | 718 | #344 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 596 | #386 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 647 | #365 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 651 | #364 | 0.32 |
| 1990 | 729 | #338 | 0.35 |
| 1989 | 748 | #321 | 0.37 |
| 1988 | 770 | #297 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 700 | #308 | 0.37 |
| 1986 | 633 | #320 | 0.34 |
| 1985 | 597 | #330 | 0.32 |
| 1984 | 602 | #320 | 0.33 |
| 1983 | 735 | #279 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 639 | #308 | 0.35 |
| 1981 | 437 | #386 | 0.24 |
| 1980 | 470 | #368 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 480 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 467 | #357 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 623 | #308 | 0.38 |
| 1976 | 521 | #331 | 0.33 |
| 1975 | 411 | #384 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 337 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 334 | #428 | 0.21 |
| 1972 | 344 | #426 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 383 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1970 | 412 | #394 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 267 | #469 | 0.15 |
| 1968 | 176 | #571 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 168 | #584 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 160 | #594 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 184 | #562 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 238 | #508 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 223 | #532 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 139 | #661 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 149 | #640 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 126 | #700 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 126 | #681 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 137 | #657 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 115 | #706 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 136 | #649 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 120 | #669 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 132 | #637 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 113 | #675 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 130 | #618 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 112 | #661 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 121 | #624 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 104 | #673 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 118 | #624 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 111 | #657 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 118 | #591 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 101 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 119 | #557 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 88 | #688 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 109 | #604 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 59 | #832 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 56 | #848 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 73 | #698 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 61 | #796 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 60 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 56 | #822 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 72 | #723 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 69 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 67 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 76 | #716 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 104 | #579 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 108 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 98 | #613 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 107 | #600 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 107 | #606 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 104 | #617 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 110 | #603 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 188 | #445 | 0.17 |
| 1923 | 167 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 161 | #486 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 233 | #401 | 0.21 |
| 1920 | 337 | #312 | 0.32 |
| 1919 | 567 | #220 | 0.58 |
| 1918 | 480 | #243 | 0.47 |
| 1917 | 72 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 53 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 27 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 22 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 13 | #966 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 13 | #920 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 11 | #941 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 10 | #934 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 12 | #804 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 8 | #986 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,360 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Quentin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Quentin has been given almost only to boys: 190 girls in 122 years of records.
Girls and boys named Quentin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quentin, and how old are they?
37,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 43,662 Americans ever recorded as Quentin. The median Quentin alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 30,698 people named Quentin (151 women and girls, 30,547 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 289 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,740 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,470 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Quentin born?
The states with the most babies named Quentin are California, Ohio and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,032 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 14 | #667 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,044 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 13 | #559 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,535 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #737 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 12 | #616 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | #613 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | #855 | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 8 | #561 | 0.9× |
Where Quentin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Quentin is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Quentin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 103,668 babies since 1880, Quentin is the most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 238 of their 632 babies (38%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Quentin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Quentin and names like it
- Compare Quentin and QuintonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sQuentin peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Quentin since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Quentin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Quentin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Quentin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with QMost given first.