Quintin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin ‘fifth’; used in Ireland with Quentin and Quinton to anglicise Cooey
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkwɪntɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quintin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K
- USUnited States1 in 28K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
11,909 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin ‘fifth’; used in Ireland with Quentin and Quinton to anglicise Cooey.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quintin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,909 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Quintin | 373 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Quintin | 75 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Quintin | 45 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Quintin | 15 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,395 | 1 in 21K | 1.4K | — | — |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Quintin | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | #884 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 13 | Quintin | 58 |
11,909 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Quintin 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.
Latin, ‘fifth’. This name was used in Ireland, together with its variants Quentin and Quinton to anglicise Cooey.
as a nameIrish first names
In French, soit de (Le) Quintin, nom de plusieurs localités en Bretagne, ou même origine que Quentin.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Le quintin est une toile de lin clair que l’on tissait autrefois à Quintin, localité bretonne à 20 km de Saint-Brieuc.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Quintin Kennedyb. 1520Scottish abbot of Crossraguel and religious controversialist
- Walter Q. Greshamb. 1832USnot in their usual nameUS Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Union Army general (1832-1895)
- Quintin Hoggb. 1845GBMerchant and philanthropist (1845–1903)
- Quintín B. Paredesb. 1884PHPresident of the Senate of the Philippines in 1952
- Quintin Brandb. 1893ZARoyal Air Force air marshals (1893-1968)
- Quintin McGarel Hoggb. 1907GBBritish judge, politician and Cabinet minister (1907–2001)
- Quintin Sondergaardb. 1925USAmerican actor (1925-1984)
- Tomas Milianb. 1933CUnot in their usual nameCuban-born American and Italian actor (1933-2017)
- Quintin Daileyb. 1961USAmerican basketball player (1961-2010)
- Quintin Berryb. 1984USbaseball player from the United States
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 721 | #33,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 676 | #33,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 624 | #34,342 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Quintin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkwɪntɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Quintin mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin ‘fifth’; used in Ireland with Quentin and Quinton to anglicise Cooey. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Quintin?
- In the etymology graph, Quentin, Quinton and Quinten are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Quintin a male or female name?
- Quintin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Quintin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Quintin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quintin.
- How common is the name Quintin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,909 people named Quintin in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Quintin compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Quintin is the 884th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quintinThe 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, “Quintin” — the 884th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.