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Kentin

Kentin is a surname from French. It is used in Dutch.

Original FrenchQuentin

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kentin comes from French.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From French Quentin.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Kentin through the years

Babies since 1880
17
17 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2005
7 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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012342025Highest share 20050.0
Kentin in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2005–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2005.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Kentin’s family of names

In Breton usage, Kentin has a conventional equivalent in the French form Quentin. Kentin has a related form in Kenton. In Breton usage, Kentin has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Κοϊντίνος.

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KentinKentonQuentinΚοϊντίνος

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Kentin

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