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Quintin

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Quintin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 112 births. Its best rank was 503rd, in 1990.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1120.01% of boys
Peak year
1997405 births
Best rank
#503in 1990
Since 1912
15,472people given the name
Babies named Quintin, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

15,472 boys have been named Quintin in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 405 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 23%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Quintin
1910s124
1920s224
1930s113
1940s88
1950s551
1960s1,413
1970s797
1980s2,276
1990s3,471
2000s3,525
2010s2,216
2020s674

In 1997, its biggest year

Quintin was the 506th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.

Names that rose and fell with Quintin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.