Quinto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Quintus, 'fifth'; originally the fifth-born child
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/kinto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quinto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.8K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Latin Quintus, 'fifth'; originally the fifth-born child
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Quinto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #460 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Quinto | 64 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Quinto | 12 |
| EC Ecuador | #305 | 12,431 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Quinto | 35 |
| PE Peru | #422 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Quinto | 70 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 2 | Quinto | 55 |
| NI Nicaragua | #625 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Quinto | 15 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates 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)Quinto 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 Spanish, fifth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Dal latino Quintus, nome numerale romano, usato dai Romani e poi talora dai moderni.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Altro dei nomi numerali usato dai Romani, in cib seguiti talora d:ki moderni. So di una famiglia neUa quale tutti i figli, in numero di dieci, hanno nomi nu- merali. S. Quintino, 31 ottobre. S. Quinto, 19 marzo. Gogn. Quintini, Quinzio, Quintieri. Ma per queat'ul- timo bisogna supporre u n Quiiltarius » latino, che non so se esista.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Quintus; pode indicar habitante de localidades chamadas Quinto.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Du latin quintus, « cinquième »; variante masculine liée à juillet (quintilis).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)- Egidio Quintob. 1653Catholic bishop (1653-1722)
- Nadir Quintob. 1918ITItalian comics artist (1918–1994)
- Felice Quintob. 1929ITItalian photographer
- Riccardo Quintob. 1961ITItalian historian
- Oscar Bearb. 1974VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan pornographic actor
- Zachary Quintob. 1977USAmerican actor and film producer
- Rufa Mae Quintob. 1978PHFilipino actress and comedian
- Raúl Quintob. 1978ESSpanish writer
- Charles Quintob. 1990COfootballer
- Max Hidalgo QuintoPEenvironmentalists and entrepreneur from Peru
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 12K | #344 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 12K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2006 | 258 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 248 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1999 | 246 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2010 | 235 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1985 | 234 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 127 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Quinto mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Quintus, 'fifth'; originally the fifth-born child Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Quinto?
- In the etymology graph, Quintal and Requinto are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Quinto?
- A machine transcription gives /kinto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Quinto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Quinto in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quinto.
- Where is Quinto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quinto is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Quinto?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 12,431 people named Quinto in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Quinto compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Quinto is the 460th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Quinto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quintoThe 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, “Quinto” — the 460th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.