Quintin
Quintin was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,899 among boys’ names; 15,565 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,200 Americans named Quintin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quintin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Quintin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Quintin is “a male given name from Latin.”
A less common form of Quentin.
/ˈkwɪn.tən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Quintin?
#1,899 among boys’ names, 2025
Quintin fell from #949 in 2015 to #1,899 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.05 per 1,000.
405 babies in 1997, the peak
Quintin peaked in 1997, when 405 boys were given it, #506 among boys’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,899 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 112 | #1,561 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,338 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,369 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,163 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 163 | #1,184 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,179 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 194 | #1,040 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,085 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 220 | #949 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 221 | #955 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 251 | #853 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 275 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 271 | #812 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 279 | #785 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 325 | #726 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 349 | #687 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 351 | #679 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 356 | #651 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 379 | #598 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 401 | #568 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 344 | #607 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 314 | #629 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 345 | #584 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 361 | #570 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 355 | #562 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 370 | #542 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 405 | #506 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 355 | #541 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 389 | #518 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 302 | #594 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 252 | #649 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 308 | #581 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 353 | #539 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 382 | #502 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 287 | #575 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 281 | #550 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 274 | #550 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 217 | #606 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 255 | #552 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 277 | #512 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 246 | #532 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 207 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 115 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 117 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 108 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 103 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 97 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 102 | #830 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,112 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 74 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,066 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 77 | #915 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 67 | #940 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 69 | #874 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 107 | #718 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 132 | #647 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 156 | #614 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 211 | #543 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 213 | #544 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 148 | #636 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 175 | #598 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 135 | #673 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 96 | #784 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 82 | #829 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 103 | #740 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 78 | #851 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,041 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,586 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,207 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 25 | #1,540 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,480 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,490 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,535 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,594 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,400 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,705 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,072 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,943 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,176 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 40 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,798 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,236 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,014 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Quintin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Quintin has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Quintin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quintin, and how old are they?
14,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 15,565 Americans ever recorded as Quintin. The median Quintin alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 11,909 people named Quintin (41 women and girls, 11,868 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,767 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 32 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,140 |
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 Quintin born?
The states with the most babies named Quintin are Florida, California and Texas, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 12 | #1,109 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #1,789 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,237 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #700 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,081 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #1,977 | 0.6× |
Where Quintin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Quintin is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1912 it was given 1.2 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 Quintin 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 103,788 babies since 1880, Quintin is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 641 babies (13%), again the third 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 Quintin
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 Quintin and names like it
- Compare Quintin and QuentinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sQuintin peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Quintin since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Quintin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Quintin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Quintin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with QMost given first.