Quinlan
Quinlan is given to both girls and boys: 22 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,669 among girls’ names and #3,920 among boys’, #5,662 among all names counting both); 3,296 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,240 Americans named Quinlan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quinlan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Quinlan?
#3,920 among boys’ names, 2025
Quinlan fell from #2,474 in 2015 to #3,920 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 16.4 per million.
174 babies in 2006, the peak
Quinlan peaked in 2006, when 174 babies were given it (144 boys, #1,176 among boys’ names). The 50 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,669 | 28 | #3,920 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,910 | 32 | #3,581 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,605 | 32 | #3,610 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,921 | 31 | #3,673 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,350 | 32 | #3,556 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,304 | 34 | #3,325 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,640 | 55 | #2,454 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,180 | 43 | #2,833 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,231 | 51 | #2,522 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,956 | 48 | #2,609 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,419 | 51 | #2,474 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,275 | 56 | #2,336 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,855 | 60 | #2,195 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,099 | 80 | #1,843 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,322 | 89 | #1,685 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,399 | 89 | #1,723 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,046 | 82 | #1,819 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,108 | 103 | #1,559 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,446 | 135 | #1,296 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,770 | 144 | #1,176 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,073 | 112 | #1,350 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,786 | 99 | #1,430 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,905 | 108 | #1,301 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,404 | 104 | #1,297 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,651 | 100 | #1,310 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,267 | 110 | #1,224 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,987 | 107 | #1,198 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,999 | 86 | #1,363 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,732 | 75 | #1,447 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,976 | 64 | #1,564 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,441 | 52 | #1,721 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,995 | 42 | #2,001 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,999 | 32 | #2,381 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,372 | 32 | #2,340 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 32 | #2,275 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 15 | #3,914 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 21 | #2,965 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,304 | 10 | #4,693 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 15 | #3,298 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #5,215 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 12 | #3,750 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 10 | #4,136 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,334 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,893 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #7,016 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,227 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,460 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,608 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Quinlan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,296 Americans recorded as Quinlan, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Quinlan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quinlan, and how old are they?
3,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,296 Americans ever recorded as Quinlan. The median Quinlan alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,819 people named Quinlan (652 women and girls, 2,167 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 396 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 805 |
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 Quinlan born?
The states with the most babies named Quinlan are California, New York and Illinois, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 214 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 68 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 63 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Quinlan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,646 babies since 1880, Quinlan is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 50 babies (100%), 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 Quinlan
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 Quinlan and names like it
- Compare Quinlan and QuinlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sQuinlan peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Quinlan since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Quinlan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Quinlan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with QMost given first.