Quinn
The girl's name Quinn has been in the national records since 1915, with 89,495 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 97th. About 88,000 Quinns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Quinn
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Quinn crossed from boys to girls in 2010, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 82% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 75 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 89,495
- Estimated living today
- 88,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 79th
- Rank in 2025
- 97th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 52,503 / 36,992
How old the living Quinns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 89,495 babies given the name since 1915, about 88,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 62,000 of them are children and 390 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
The surname is.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Quinns
- Quinn Cummings (born 1967)American writer, inventor and former child actress
- Harley Quinn Smith (born 1999)American actress and musician
- Quinn Hughes (born 1999)American ice hockey player
- Quinn (born 1995)Canadian soccer player
- Quinn Shephard (born 1995)American actress, filmmaker and film editor
- Quinn Buckner (born 1954)American basketball player and coach
- Quinn Cook (born 1993)American basketball player
- Quinn Simmons (born 2001)American cyclist
People named Quinn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Quinn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Quinn is most concentrated in Utah (2.7×), Colorado (2.4×), Nevada (2.2×), New Hampshire (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Quinn peaked:
Quinn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Quinn | 3,100 | 245th |
| England and Wales girls | Quinn | 2,314 | 217th |
| New Zealand boys | Quinn | 1,000 | 63rd |
| Scotland girls | Quinn | 626 | 76th |
| New Zealand girls | Quinn | 601 | 47th |
| Belgium boys | Quinn | 550 | 212th |
| Scotland boys | Quinn | 373 | 173rd |
| Ireland girls | Quinn | 227 | 173rd |
| Belgium girls | Quinn | 225 | 377th |
| Switzerland boys | Quinn | 190 | 430th |
| Ireland boys | Quinn | 161 | 287th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Quinn | 148 | 134th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Quinn | 83 | 197th |
| Switzerland girls | Quinn | 74 | 547th |
| France boys | Quinn | 10 | 5,934th |
| France girls | Quinn | 10 | 5,235th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Quinn: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Quinn | 185 | 0.015% | 307th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Quinn | 70 | 0.006% | 402nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Quinn | 5 | 0.001% | 598th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Quinn | 2 | 0.000% | 762nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Quinn | 2 | 0.003% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Quinn is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.02% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Quinn: rank by region
In 2025, Quinn was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Quinn | 317 | 18 |
| Flanders | Quinn | 753 | 6 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Quinn appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Quinn by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 20 | 383rd |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Quinn among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Quinn | 2,513 | 3,031 |
| the Netherlands girls | Quinn | 221 | 314 |
| Finland girls | Quinn | 6 | 21 |
| Finland boys | Quinn | 13 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Quinn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.