Quina
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: quinine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 53K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 97K
- BRBrazil1 in 166K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
1,279 people
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Quiña in AR Argentina.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
corner (projection of an angle in a solid object)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Quina is read(measured from records)
Quina is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Quina in Spanish.
- English26%
quinine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese17%
corner (projection of an angle in a solid object)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,279 | 1 in 166K | 1.3K | Quina | 68 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Quina | 18 |
| GT Guatemala | #886 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Quina | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 862 | 1 in 53K | 862 | Quiña | 30 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Quina | 32 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Quina | 46 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Quina | 11 |
1,279 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Quina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, fivesome (a group of five people or things)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, feminine singular of quin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of quīnus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacob Quinab. 1588NLpainter
- Jacob Quina jr.b. 1634NLDutch lawyer. From 1691 to 1699 regent of the Spinning and Workhouse in Amsterdam (-1699)
- Mário Quinab. 1930PTsailor
- José Manuel Quinab. 1934PTsailor
- Samuel Quinab. 1966PTfootballer
- Nelinho Quinab. 1987PEPeruvian footballer
- Minzum Quinab. 1987PEPeruvian association football player
- Domingos Quinab. 1999GWassociation football player
- Ana Sofia QuinaPTresearcher
- Yessica Estefany Rosas QuinaPEPeruvian engineer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,398 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Quina come from?
- corner (projection of an angle in a solid object) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Quina?
- A machine transcription gives /kina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Quina mean?
- In English, quinine
- In which country does Quina have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Quina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quina.
- How common is the name Quina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,279 people named Quina, about 1 in 166 thousand residents.
- How common is Quina compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Quina is the 886th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Quina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quina” — the 886th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.