Given name & surname · also Old French
Quentin
“the fifth-born child”
Quentin is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “the fifth-born child.”
Original LatinQuintinus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “the fifth-born child.”
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Old French and Latin naming traditions.
The story
The name’s historical associations include a 3rd-century saint.
Quentin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 43,662
- 43,472 boys · 190 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 1,052 babies
- 2025
- 238
- #968 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 238 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 968 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 30.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 1,052 in 1998. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (21). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 30,698 as a first name in 2020; 243 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Quentin’s family of names
In English usage, Quentin has a diminutive in Quint. Quentin shares a linguistic root with Caoidhean. Quentin has a related form in Quinton.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Quentin has relatives in 28 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Quentin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 36
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Quintinusbase name · Latin, German
- Quinnequivalent
- QuintenDutch
- Quinceyequivalent
- Quintusequivalent
- KentinBreton
- Квентинborrowing · Russian
- ΚόιντοςGreek
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- ΚοϊντίνοςGreek
- Quintínborrowing · Spanish
- Quintianequivalent
- Quintienequivalent
- QvintinusSwedish
- KvintinSerbo-Croatian
- КвинтинRussian
- KwintynPolish
- KwintenDutch
- KventinasLithuanian
- クエンティンJapanese
- カンタンJapanese
- QuintinoItalian, Portuguese
- ΚουϊντίνοςGreek
- ΚυντίνοςGreek
- KvintenoEsperanto
- QuintinuCorsican
- 昆廷Chinese, Mandarin
- KintinBreton, pcd
- KindinBasque
- Кве́нтінUkrainian
- QvintinSwedish
- Caointeancognate · Scottish Gaelic
- क्वेन्टिनMarathi
- 퀜틴Korean
- क्वेंटिनHindi
- QuintíCatalan
- Caoidheancognate
People named Quentin
- Quentin TarantinoAmerican filmmaker and actor (born 1963)
- Fatboy SlimBritish musician (born 1963)
- Quentin MatsysFlemish painter (1466-1530)1456–1530
- Quentin Bryce25th Governor-General of Australiaborn 1942
- Quentin CrispEnglish writer, humorist and actor (1908-1999)
- Quentin Fillon MailletFrench biathleteborn 1992
- Quentin BlakeEnglish cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer (born 1932)
- Quentin DupieuxFrench electronic musician and film directorborn 1974
- Quentin SkinnerBritish historian (1940-)
Characters named Quentin: Mysterio (Marvel Comics), Quentin Costa (character on 'Nip/Tuck'.).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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