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Quint vs Quintin

American parents have registered 15,565 Quintins since 1880, against 687 Quints. Quintin is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quint against Quintin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quint Quintin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Quintin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1964, when Quint had 88 and Quintin had 211.

Side by side

  Quint Quintin
Total US births 68715,565
Most in one year 88405
Babies in 2025 under 583
Estimated living today 62014,000
Median age today 4827
Peak year 19641997
Best rank 806th boys505th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,886th
First recorded 19591912
Girls / boys 0 / 6877 / 15,558

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Quints alive today are over 48; half the Quintins are over 27. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Quint Quintin
Belgium 1516

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Quint and Quintin.