Quintus is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Quentin, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Quintus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,150 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,150 in 1917; #7,558 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Quintus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,558 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #3,150.
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Quintus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,150 in 1917 · most boys in one year: 31 (2012).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Quintus, making it the 7,558th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,111 places from #10,669 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 7 boys named Quintus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,150, reached in 1917. The most boys given the name in a single year was 31, in 2012. For comparison, it was #4,516 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quintus in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 8 babies. In all, 559 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 227 babies named Quintus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 199 US boys were named Quintus; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Quentin (43,662 babies since 1880) and Quintin (15,565 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Quintus 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,558 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,669 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,864 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,661 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #5,072 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,387 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,083 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,457 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,077 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,068 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,516 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,983 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,929 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,510 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,374 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,454 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,209 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #13,910 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,708 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #8,020 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,297 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,049 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,501 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,827 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,811 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,212 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,271 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,083 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,602 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,747 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,330 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,132 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,058 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,033 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,009 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,529 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,778 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,309 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,091 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,552 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,778 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,021 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,180 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,465 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,831 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,932 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,959 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,366 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,844 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,150 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,150 |
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).