Quintana
Quintana was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quintana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Quintana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,519, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1982, the peak
Quintana peaked in 1982, when 12 girls were given it, #5,799 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,519 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,989 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,501 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,742 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,286 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,988 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,701 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,520 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,042 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,123 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #15,152 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,393 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,667 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,338 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,925 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,564 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,519 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,466 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,009 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,871 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,799 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,220 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,649 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,854 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,396 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,364 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,906 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,395 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,966 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Quintana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Quintana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Quintana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quintana, and how old are they?
An estimated 196 Americans named Quintana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 30 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 243 people named Quintana (210 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,584 babies since 1880, Quintana is the third most given (13% of them).
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 Quintana
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 Quintana and names like it
- Compare Quintana and QuintinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sQuintana peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Quintana.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Quintana alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with QMost given first.