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Quintin vs Quintina

American parents have registered 15,565 Quintins since 1880, against 1,017 Quintinas. Quintin is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quintin Quintina

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 1974, when Quintin had 55 and Quintina had 53.

Side by side

  Quintin Quintina
Total US births 15,5651,017
Most in one year 40554
Babies in 2025 83under 5
Estimated living today 14,000960
Median age today 2746
Peak year 19971976
Best rank 505th boys1,747th girls
Rank in 2025 1,886thunranked
First recorded 19121953
Girls / boys 7 / 15,5581,017 / 0

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 Quintinas alive today are over 46; half the Quintins are over 27. That is 19 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 Quintin Quintina
France 55

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: Quintin and Quintina.