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Tarquin

Boys' name

Possibly Tarquinii, through Tarquinius

Tarquin has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 2004, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Tarquin, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarquin: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Tarquinii, through Tarquinius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tarquin means

Tarquin belongs to the name family reached through Tarquin → Tarquinius. Its meaning is “Tarquinii”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Tarquinius from Etruscan tarqu(s)na, also tarcna or tarχna.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tarquin is used in English.

Tarquin comes through Latin Tarquinius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tarquinius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 66 boys were recorded with the name Tarquin between 1987 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,467 in 2004.

How common is Tarquin?

Tarquin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarquin 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarquin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarquins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarquin was born before 2004 — so the typical Tarquin is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
66
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Tarquin 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (12)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,467
2004

Spellings of Tarquin

Tarquin is not the most common spelling — Marquis is, with 85.8% against Tarquin's 0.23%.

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.

Tarquin around the world

Where Tarquin 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2008–2008
    #5,070
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1973–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tarquin 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
#6,467
2004
Peak year
2004
12 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
66
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tarquin

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

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Sibling names for Tarquin

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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