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The first name 
Quentin

Quentin is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Quentin – popular and common in the US!

The name Quentin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Quentin ranks 486. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Quentin. In the entire USA, approximately 37,493 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Quentin. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Quentin

What does the name 
Quentin mean?

Quentin is a French name based on the ancient Roman first name Quintus. This is an ancient Roman first name meaning ‘the fifth’. It was traditionally given to the fifth child in a family or a child born in the fifth month of the year.

The name Quentin... is used in the U.S. since the 1900s alongside Quincy, the English variant of Quintus.

Quentin has 7 letters 
and begins with a Q

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The Q is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a Q. Only the letters X and U are even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common initial letters for boys’ names are J and A.

With seven letters, the name Quentin has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that as 0.8% of all boys' names start with a Q, all other letters occur on average more than five times as often as the Q. Of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a Q, most are also not very common - the most popular currently is the one of Mr. Tarantino.

Other names with 
Q, u, e, n, t, i and n

If you take all the letters in the name Quentin – Q, u, e, n, t, i and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Quinten.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Quentin

If your name is Quentin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Quentin

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Quentin, you can simply say:

Queen

Unicorn

Elephant

Nut

Tiger

Igloo

Nut

This is how the name Quentin is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Quentin in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Quentin

Quentin

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Quentin

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Quentin is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Q
U
E
N
T
I
N

Have you ever waved the name Quentin

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Q
U
E
N
T
I
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Quentin sounds like this: