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.
Quentin is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Quentin
Quentin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Q
U
E
N
T
I
N
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
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:
