Quinlin
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Quinlin has been given to 205 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Quinlin, 2020
1 in 557,000
Quinlin over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Quinlin?
Quinlin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 288,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Quinlin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quinlin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Quinlins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Quinlin was born before 2002 — so the typical Quinlin is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 200
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (104).
Is Quinlin 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (14)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Quinlin
Quinlin is not the most common spelling — Quentin is, with 31.4% against Quinlin's 0.14%.
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.
Quinlin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Quinlin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Quinlin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.