Quentin

A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning fifth.

Babies a year
518
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#968
down from #788
UK popularity
#1613
16 babies

How Quentin has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#405#726#1047201520202025#968

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#484
2016#484
2017#539
2018#544
2019#590
2020#536
2021#541
2022#654
2023#768
2024#788
2025#968

Quentin by the numbers

In 2025, 16 babies in England and Wales were named Quentin. In the US, 518 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 1,052 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.

At its height, in 1995, about 1 in 2,200 American boys born that year was called Quentin.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Quentin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Quintinvariant of Quentin; fifth or born in the fifth month194 in the US (2017)
  • Quentonfrom the fifth; a form of Quentin23 in the US (2017)
  • Quentynfifth; a form of Quentin9 in the US (2017)
  • Quentenvariant of Quentin; fifth6 in the US (2017)
  • Quintonfifth; from the Roman name Quintus502 in the US (2017)
  • Quintenfifth; form of Quentin132 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Quentin

Names that are said the same way as Quentin, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kentonsettlement of the keen or royal estate133 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Quentin

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