Quinto

Boys' name

Fifth

Quinto has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1918, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Quinto, 1929

1 in 313,000

Quinto over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Quinto: meaning, origin, and history

Fifth

Latin

What Quinto means

Quinto means “fifth”, associated with quīntus.

Origin, language, and formation

Quinto is used in Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Quinto comes through Latin Quīntus and Latin quīntus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 99 boys were recorded with the name Quinto between 1912 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,600 in 1912.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Quinto?

Quinto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1929
1 in 313,000
7 of 2,192,103 births
Among boys only
1 in 154,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1929
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
217,065 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Quinto 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 1929 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 217,065 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quinto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Quintos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Quinto was born before 1918 — so the typical Quinto is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
63.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 63.6% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Quinto 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (15)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,600
1912

Spellings of Quinto

Quinto is not the most common spelling — Quinn is, with 29.0% against Quinto's 0.08%.

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.

Quinto around the world

Where Quinto 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.

  • France
    1912–1934
    #681
    in 1934

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Quinto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,600
1912
Peak year
1918
15 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Quinto

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

Sibling names for Quinto

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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