Quinton
- Pronunciation
- [Quin-ton]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Variant Of Quentin Fifth. Surname.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Quinton
Quinton is recorded as an English variant of Quentin, with the meaning "fifth." Quentin traces to the Latin Quintus, a Roman praenomen given to a fifth child or fifth-born son, from the Latin ordinal quintus. As a surname and then a given name in English, the -ton ending in Quinton adds the Old English place-name suffix meaning "settlement" or "town," producing a compound that functions as both a French-descended personal name and an English toponymic surname simultaneously. It also functions as a "surname," accurately reflecting this dual character.
Quinton appears in the US Social Security top-1000 from 2000 and peaked in that same year at rank #379. Notably, the name has remained on the chart continuously through 2024 — a span of at least 25 years — making it one of the longer-running entries in this batch. In 2024, 296 births were recorded at rank #835. Total top-1000-qualifying births across the full window reached approximately 12,350.. Its persistent chart presence, even as its rank gradually declined from its 2000 peak, reflects a steady core of loyal users rather than a name driven purely by trend.
Quinton occupies a distinctive niche: it has the Latin ordinal gravitas of Quentin, the English settlement-name solidity of names ending in -ton, and a distinctive Qu- opening that makes it immediately recognizable without being common. Its two-syllable, surname-inflected character has helped it maintain a durable low-level popularity across more than two decades of American naming data.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Quinton
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Quinton by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 688 boys named Quinton (boy rank #379 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #976 for boys (235 US births). That's 597 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Quinton Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Quinton the strongest states are West Virginia, Idaho, Oregon.
Strongest boys-name states
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #978 | 148 |
| 2 | Texas | #949 | 127 |
| 3 | North Carolina | #911 | 64 |
| 4 | New York | #889 | 107 |
| 5 | Illinois | #786 | 105 |
| 6 | Arizona | #784 | 58 |
| 7 | Florida | #741 | 146 |
| 8 | Colorado | #691 | 55 |
| 9 | Georgia | #688 | 114 |
| 10 | Louisiana | #673 | 61 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Quinton in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Quinton against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).