Quine
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Quine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a different form of Quinn; or from the French personal name Jacquine, a female pet-form of Jacques.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 148K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 749K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 145K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a different form of Quinn; or from the French personal name Jacquine, a female pet-form of Jacques.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quine 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Quine | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Quine | 22 |
| US United States | 444 | 1 in 749K | 504 | Quine | 170 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 686 | Quine | 108 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Quine | 57 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 333K | — | Quine | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Quine is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Mac Coinn or Mac Cuinn ‘son of Conri’, from Ir conn ‘counsel’; Manx name; first attested Mac Cuinn 1027
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A program that produces its own source code as output.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, Doric Scots form of quean (“young woman, girl”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, set of five, group of five (such as the digits on one hand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular 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)
- John Quineb. 1857IMManx scholar, poet and playwright
- Willard Van Orman Quineb. 1908USAmerican philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
- Richard Quineb. 1920USAmerican actor and director (1920-1989)
- Edgar Quineb. 1934IMManx politician
- Don Quineb. 1938USAmerican actor and science fiction writer
- Fred Quineb. 1941AUAustralian field hockey player
- Robert Quineb. 1942USAmerican guitarist (1942–2004)
- Dan Auerbachb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Alan Quineb. 1993CACanadian ice hockey player
- D. E. C. QuineGBresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 686 | #8,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 504 | #40,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 483 | #47,351 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 444 | #47,706 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Quine mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Quinn; or from the French personal name Jacquine, a female pet-form of Jacques. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Quine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Quine in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quine.
- How common is the name Quine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 444 people named Quine in 2010, about 1 in 749 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Quine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quineThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Quine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.