Quintin
Quintin reached its high-water mark in 1997 at number 505, and has been recorded 15,565 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,886th. About 14,000 Quintins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Quintin boys named Quintin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,565
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 505th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,886th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 7 / 15,558
How old the living Quintins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,565 babies given the name since 1912, about 14,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 3,600 of them are children and 540 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 Latin
A less common form of Quentin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Quintins
- Walter Quintin Gresham (1832–1895)US Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Union Army general
- Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907–2001)British judge, politician and Cabinet minister
- Quintin Dailey (1961–2010)American basketball player
People named Quintin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Quintin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Quintin is most concentrated in Florida (1.7×), South Carolina (1.6×), Wisconsin (1.6×), Illinois (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular boys’ names the year Quintin peaked:
Quintin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Quintin | 94 | 2,488th |
| Belgium boys | Quintin | 16 | 1,038th |
| Scotland boys | Quintin | 6 | 288th |
| France boys | Quintin | 5 | 913th |
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.
Quintin: rank by region
In 2003, Quintin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Quintin | 728 | 5 |
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.
Where Quintin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 716 men called Quintin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Quintin | 35 | 0.182 | 432 |
| Salamanca | Quintin | 24 | 0.151 | 474 |
| Ávila | Quintin | 11 | 0.136 | 508 |
| Cuenca | Quintin | 11 | 0.109 | 632 |
| Badajoz | Quintin | 35 | 0.107 | 495 |
| Segovia | Quintin | 7 | 0.088 | 706 |
Listed in 39 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 13 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Quintin 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.