Quinlan — #3629 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Quinlan

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,532 babies named Quinlan between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Quinlan currently holds the #3629 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 144 babies received it in a single year. Quinlan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 713 additional births since 1988.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Quinlan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,097 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Quinlan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 177 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Quinlan in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Quinlan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,532 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.