Girls' name · since 1960
Quentina
Quentina has 140 recorded births since 1960 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1976 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #23,506 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 140
- born since 1960
- 1970s
- peak decade
Quentina sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 140 recorded since 1960.
Quentina has 140 recorded births among girls since 1960, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1960 to 1994.
- #23,506 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 140 born since 1960
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Quentina ranks #23,506 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 140 born since 1960, peaking in the 1970s.
- #23,506 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 140
- born since 1960
- 1970s
- peak decade
Quentina's 140 recorded births place it above 67.47% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Quentina's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Quentina splits its recorded history at 1977: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1960 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1976 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Quentina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1960–1994
- Peak year (1976)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 35 years of records
Quentina by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (72 births, 51% of the file).
1970s was Quentina's strongest decade.
72 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Quentina births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 17
1960s
17 births
- 1970s
1970s
72 births
- 1980s
1980s
36 births
- 1990s 15
1990s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 72 births (51% of all-time use).
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- Quentina's decade-level peak was the 1970s (72 total births); usage has since declined to 15 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Quentina: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1976)
Similar record span (~34 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1960–1994 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Quentina draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.