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Quenton

#7,553 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Quenton has been given to 3,206 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #7,553 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Quenton, 2025

1 in 301,000

Quenton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Quenton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Quenton means

Quenton is a given name.

The naming story behind Quenton

Wikidata records Quenton as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q52324961, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,206 boys were recorded with the name Quenton between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,048 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,627 in 2020 to #7,553 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,259 in 2015 to #7,553 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Quenton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,553
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Quenton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quenton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Quentons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Quenton was born before 1991 — so the typical Quenton is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,931
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (821).

Is Quenton rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+72
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,926
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,294
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.8%
Peak was 1990 (102)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,048
1990

Spellings of Quenton

Quenton is not the most common spelling — Trenton is, with 28.3% against Quenton's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Quenton is used

Across 1910–2025, Quenton was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 180,412 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Quenton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Quenton around the world

Where Quenton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,079
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1944–1987
    #464
    in 1987

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Quenton

People whose public names include Quenton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Quenton by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,553
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,926
Best rank ever
#1,048
1990
Peak year
1990
102 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,206
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Quenton

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Quenton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Quenton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VincenteMikalEribertoAdalbertoMontezLuizFaustoKendellTerronHoracioArtemioKendal

Sibling names for Quenton

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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