Given name & surname
Quinto
“the fifth-born child”
Quinto is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “the fifth-born child.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “the fifth-born child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
From Latin Quīntus, from Latin quīntus (“fifth”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Quinto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 99
- 99 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 109 as a first name in 2020; 2,577 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.
Quinto’s family of names
Quinto has a related form in Quintus. In Italian usage, Quinto has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Kwintus. Quinto has a related form in Quintea.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Quintusvariant
- Quinteavariant
- Quinteevariant
- Quinteyvariant
- Quintievariant
- Quintivariant
- Quintyvariant
- Quintosvariant
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Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Quintonequivalent
- Quintinequivalent
- Quintenequivalent
- Caointeanequivalent
- Quintinoequivalent
- Quintíequivalent
- Quinzioequivalent
- Kwintynequivalent
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People named Quinto
- Quinto MaganiniAmerican conductor, composer and musicologist (1897–1974)
- Quinto CenniItalian painter (1845-1917)
- Quinto MartiniItalian artist (1908–1990)
- Quinto QuintieriItalian politician (1894–1968)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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