girls:
190 births since 1919
#5526 (3rd percentile)
boys:
42.9k births since 1900
#540 (88th percentile)
overall:
43.1k births since 1900
#1185 (85th percentile)
The name Quentin is the #1,185 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43,094 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 84.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #540 (88.2% percentile) for all time with 42,904 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,526 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 190 births since 1919.
Quentin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1919 for girls). Birth data for Quentin is available in 120 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (120 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Quentin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Quentin reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 66.5% percentile (ranked #267) with 519 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 558 births per million (ranked 61.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Quentin ranks #599 for boys (34.3% percentile) with 182 births per million, which is 32.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Quentin reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #779) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Quentin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Quentin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.7% confident that Quentin is pronounced as KWEHN-tihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KWEHN-tuhn, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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