Quirinus
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An early Roman deity of possibly Sabine origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʋiː.riː.ˈnʉs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quirinus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- IDIndonesia
- MYMalaysia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Roman saint name Quirinus; ultimately the god-name Quirinus
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Quirinus is read(measured from records)
Quirinus is one spelling over 4 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.
- Dutch29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Quirinus in Dutch.
- English22%
Sabine/Roman god of war
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
An early Roman deity of possibly Sabine origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Quirinus in Indonesian.
- German12%
from the Roman saint name Quirinus; ultimately the god-name Quirinus
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Quirinus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a Roman god of the state
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)
- Quirinus of Sesciab. 300HRBishop, martyr and saint
- Quirinus Kuhlmannb. 1651DEGerman poet and mystic (1651-1689)
- Quirinus van Blankenburgb. 1654NLDutch composer, carillonneur, organist and music theorist
- Quirinus Harderb. 1801NLDutch architect (1801–1880)
- Hendrik Q. Janssenb. 1812NLnot in their usual namepastor, school inspector and municipal archivist (1812-1881)
- Paulus Quirinus Brondgeestb. 1835NLDutch physician and pharmacologist (1835–1904)
- Quirinus Clement Bonefacicb. 1870Croatian catholic bishop (1870–1957)
- Kees Mokb. 1925NLnot in their usual nameDutch philologist, romanist and linguist (1925-2005)
- Frits Niessenb. 1936NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician (1936-2020)
- Quirinus of Malmedy4th century priest and saint
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.9K | #543 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 859 | #2,304 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #14,754 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #40,617 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2021 | 3 | #1,741 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2021 | 1 | #3,177 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2017 | 1 | #3,232 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2000 | 1 | #1,411 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2021 | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Quirinus come from?
- from the Roman saint name Quirinus; ultimately the god-name Quirinus Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Quirinus?
- A machine transcription gives /kʋiː.riː.ˈnʉs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Quirinus mean?
- In English, An early Roman deity of possibly Sabine origin.
- Is Quirinus a male or female name?
- Quirinus 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.
- What are other forms of the name Quirinus?
- In the etymology graph, Corin and Quirijn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Quirinus have the most bearers?
- Quirinus is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quirinusThe 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, “Quirinus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.