Meaning not yet researched.
Quentin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 238 in 2025. Its best rank was #220 in 1919.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #220 in 1919; #968 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Quentin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#968 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1919, at #220.
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Quentin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 238 boys in 2025. Peak: #220 in 1919 · most boys in one year: 1,052 (1998).
In 2025, 238 US boys were named Quentin, making it the 968th most common boys’ name of the year, down 184 places from #784 in 2024. That is 83 fewer than the 321 boys named Quentin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #220, reached in 1919. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,052, in 1998. For comparison, it was #484 in 2015 and #625 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quentin in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 43,662 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,417 babies named Quentin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,538 US boys were named Quentin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 635. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,177 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Quentin ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #412 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Quinn (89,495 babies since 1880), Quinton (31,665 babies since 1880), Quintin (15,565 babies since 1880) and Quinten (8,098 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Quenten, Quintus and Quintyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Quenten (735), Quintus (559), Quintyn (427), Quintan (310), Quentyn (233), Quinntin (155), Quention (71), Quientin (69), Quentine (45), Quienton (20), Quienten (6), Quintine (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Quentin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #412 | #389 |
| Washington | 13 | #559 | #328 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #561 | #668 |
| Indiana | 11 | #613 | #352 |
| Virginia | 12 | #616 | #381 |
| Ohio | 14 | #667 | #399 |
| Colorado | 8 | #667 | #331 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #737 | #429 |
| Arizona | 7 | #830 | #586 |
| Illinois | 10 | #855 | #447 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #860 | #588 |
| Maryland | 5 | #893 | #688 |
| Missouri | 5 | #963 | #365 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,006 | #649 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,014 | #473 |
| California | 21 | #1,032 | #542 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,044 | #620 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,112 | #691 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,323 | #652 |
| New York | 7 | #1,530 | #465 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,535 | #680 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 238 | #968 |
| 2024 | — | — | 321 | #784 |
| 2023 | — | — | 336 | #769 |
| 2022 | — | — | 420 | #656 |
| 2021 | — | — | 547 | #539 |
| 2020 | — | — | 528 | #533 |
| 2019 | — | — | 468 | #591 |
| 2018 | — | — | 519 | #543 |
| 2017 | — | — | 526 | #540 |
| 2016 | — | — | 635 | #484 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,972 | 616 | #484 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,589 | 619 | #470 |
| 2013 | — | — | 731 | #406 |
| 2012 | — | — | 630 | #440 |
| 2011 | — | — | 697 | #405 |
| 2010 | — | — | 714 | #396 |
| 2009 | — | — | 808 | #377 |
| 2008 | — | — | 811 | #379 |
| 2007 | — | — | 820 | #374 |
| 2006 | — | — | 881 | #347 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,504 | 913 | #332 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,142 | 914 | #330 |
| 2003 | — | — | 835 | #339 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,957 | 778 | #351 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,292 | 764 | #351 |
| 2000 | — | — | 872 | #325 |
| 1999 | — | — | 866 | #322 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,052 | #273 |
| 1997 | — | — | 993 | #282 |
| 1996 | — | — | 965 | #284 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,262 | 900 | #295 |
| 1994 | — | — | 718 | #344 |
| 1993 | — | — | 596 | #386 |
| 1992 | — | — | 647 | #365 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,781 | 651 | #364 |
| 1990 | — | — | 729 | #338 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,907 | 748 | #321 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,995 | 770 | #297 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,222 | 700 | #308 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,291 | 633 | #320 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,010 | 597 | #330 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,143 | 602 | #320 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,838 | 735 | #279 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,791 | 639 | #308 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,017 | 437 | #386 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,928 | 470 | #368 |
| 1979 | — | — | 480 | #364 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,397 | 467 | #357 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,724 | 623 | #308 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,090 | 521 | #331 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,958 | 411 | #384 |
| 1974 | — | — | 337 | #429 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,394 | 334 | #428 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,073 | 344 | #426 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,058 | 383 | #410 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,947 | 412 | #394 |
| 1969 | — | — | 267 | #469 |
| 1968 | — | — | 176 | #571 |
| 1967 | — | — | 168 | #584 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,340 | 160 | #594 |
| 1965 | — | — | 184 | #562 |
| 1964 | — | — | 238 | #508 |
| 1963 | — | — | 223 | #532 |
| 1962 | — | — | 139 | #661 |
| 1961 | — | — | 149 | #641 |
| 1960 | — | — | 126 | #701 |
| 1959 | — | — | 126 | #682 |
| 1958 | — | — | 137 | #658 |
| 1957 | — | — | 115 | #707 |
| 1956 | — | — | 136 | #650 |
| 1955 | — | — | 120 | #670 |
| 1954 | — | — | 132 | #638 |
| 1953 | — | — | 113 | #676 |
| 1952 | — | — | 130 | #619 |
| 1951 | — | — | 112 | #662 |
| 1950 | — | — | 121 | #625 |
| 1949 | — | — | 104 | #674 |
| 1948 | — | — | 118 | #625 |
| 1947 | — | — | 111 | #657 |
| 1946 | — | — | 118 | #591 |
| 1945 | — | — | 101 | #605 |
| 1944 | — | — | 119 | #557 |
| 1943 | — | — | 88 | #688 |
| 1942 | — | — | 109 | #604 |
| 1941 | — | — | 59 | #832 |
| 1940 | — | — | 56 | #848 |
| 1939 | — | — | 73 | #698 |
| 1938 | — | — | 61 | #796 |
| 1937 | — | — | 60 | #799 |
| 1936 | — | — | 56 | #822 |
| 1935 | — | — | 72 | #723 |
| 1934 | — | — | 69 | #741 |
| 1933 | — | — | 67 | #749 |
| 1932 | — | — | 76 | #716 |
| 1931 | — | — | 104 | #579 |
| 1930 | — | — | 108 | #578 |
| 1929 | — | — | 98 | #613 |
| 1928 | — | — | 107 | #600 |
| 1927 | — | — | 107 | #606 |
| 1926 | — | — | 104 | #617 |
| 1925 | — | — | 110 | #603 |
| 1924 | — | — | 188 | #445 |
| 1923 | — | — | 167 | #472 |
| 1922 | — | — | 161 | #486 |
| 1921 | — | — | 233 | #401 |
| 1920 | — | — | 337 | #312 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,703 | 567 | #220 |
| 1918 | — | — | 480 | #243 |
| 1917 | — | — | 72 | #736 |
| 1916 | — | — | 53 | #869 |
| 1915 | — | — | 32 | #1,154 |
| 1914 | — | — | 28 | #1,089 |
| 1913 | — | — | 27 | #965 |
| 1912 | — | — | 22 | #988 |
| 1911 | — | — | 13 | #967 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #920 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #941 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #934 |
| 1907 | — | — | 12 | #804 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #987 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,361 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,459 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).