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Quentin

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Quentin is ranked 788th among boys in 2024 (318 births). Its best rank was 220th, in 1919.

Rank in 2024
#788down 19 from 2023
Births in 2024
3180.02% of boys
Peak year
19981,052 births
Best rank
#220in 1919
Since 1900
43,226people given the name
Babies named Quentin, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

43,226 boys have been named Quentin in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 1,052 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 470 → 788).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 2000s alone account for 19%. It has spent 117 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Quentin
1900s51
1910s1,307
1920s1,612
1930s746
1940s983
1950s1,242
1960s1,830
1970s4,312
1980s6,330
1990s8,117
2000s8,395
2010s6,154
2020s2,147

In 1998, its biggest year

Quentin was the 273rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.

Names that rose and fell with Quentin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.