Meaning not yet researched.
Quinlan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,176 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,176 in 2006; #3,921 in 2025. About 56% of babies named Quinlan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,921 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,176.
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Quinlan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,176 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 144 (2006).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Quinlan, making it the 3,921st most common boys’ name of the year, down 338 places from #3,583 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 32 boys named Quinlan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,176, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #2,475 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Quinlan, making it the 5,670th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6,245 places from #11,915 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 8 girls named Quinlan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,400, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #5,421 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quinlan in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 3,296 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,363 babies named Quinlan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 386 US boys were named Quinlan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Quinlyn, Quinnlyn and Quinlynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Quinlyn (499), Quinnlyn (360), Quinlynn (303), Quinlin (205), Quinnlan (145), Quinlen (15).
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 Quinlan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,670 | 28 | #3,921 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,915 | 32 | #3,583 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,610 | 32 | #3,612 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,926 | 31 | #3,675 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,355 | 32 | #3,559 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,309 | 34 | #3,327 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,644 | 55 | #2,455 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,184 | 43 | #2,834 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,235 | 51 | #2,523 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,957 | 48 | #2,610 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,421 | 51 | #2,475 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,277 | 56 | #2,338 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,857 | 60 | #2,196 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,101 | 80 | #1,844 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,324 | 89 | #1,685 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,400 | 89 | #1,723 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,049 | 82 | #1,820 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,110 | 103 | #1,559 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,447 | 135 | #1,296 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,771 | 144 | #1,176 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,077 | 112 | #1,351 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,790 | 99 | #1,432 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,910 | 108 | #1,302 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,408 | 104 | #1,300 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,656 | 100 | #1,314 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,272 | 110 | #1,226 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,993 | 107 | #1,200 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,004 | 86 | #1,366 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,737 | 75 | #1,450 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,981 | 64 | #1,567 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,446 | 52 | #1,726 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,001 | 42 | #2,006 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,005 | 32 | #2,387 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,379 | 32 | #2,345 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,281 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,920 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,971 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,311 | 10 | #4,698 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,302 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,220 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,753 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,139 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,337 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,895 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,019 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,229 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,462 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,610 |
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).