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Quintus

#7,554 in 2025Boys' name

Masculine praenomen

Quintus has been given to 559 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #7,554 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Quintus, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Quintus: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine praenomen

Latin

What Quintus means

Quintus means “masculine praenomen”, associated with Quīntus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Latin Quīntus (“masculine praenomen”), from quīntus (“fifth”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Quintus (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Quintus is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 559 boys were recorded with the name Quintus between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2012; its best national rank was #3,149 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,383 in 2020 to #7,554 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,514 in 2015 to #7,554 in 2025.

How common is Quintus?

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
#7,554
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Quintus 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 Quintus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Quintuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Quintus was born before 2012 — so the typical Quintus is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
545
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (227).

Is Quintus 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
+3,110
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,171
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,040
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.5%
Peak was 2012 (31)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,149
1917

Spellings of Quintus

Quintus is not the most common spelling — Quinton is, with 55.3% against Quintus's 0.98%.

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 Quintus is used

Across 1910–2025, Quintus was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 260,649 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Quintus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Quintus around the world

Where Quintus 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.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2011–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Quintus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,554
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,171
Best rank ever
#3,149
1917
Peak year
2012
31 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
559
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Quintus

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

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Sibling names for Quintus

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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