How rare is the name Quinn?

66,536 people in the United States have the first name Quinn, about 1 in 4,539. It ranks #758 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

QUINN

#758

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
66,536
About
1 in 4,539
This common or more
65.8%
Who bears it

Of the 66,536 people named Quinn, 81.3% reported their origin as White, 6.5% as two or more races and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 52.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Quinn peaked in 2016, when 4,698 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152025
Peak year
2016
Births that year
4,698
In 2025*
3,297 ▼30%
Recorded as
used for both

At least 89,495 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Quinn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #162. The largest share of babies named Quinn, 56%, were born in 2013 or later.

1910s#5,48557
1920s#4,985112
1930s#4,490108
1940s#3,989150
1950s#2,911352
1960s#1,6631,162
1970s#1,3601,873
1980s#1,0933,205
1990s#6568,401
2000s#44015,531
2010s#18436,863
2020s#16221,681
Greatest Generation 1901–270.2%
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–641%
Generation X 1965–803.2%
Millennials 1981–968.7%
Generation Z 1997–1230.7%
2013 and later56%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Quinn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Quinn has been most common in Utah (2.7×), Colorado (2.4×), and Nevada (2.2×), and least common in Mississippi (0.07×).

84,014 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Quinn, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Quinn ranks #429 of 156,621, with 75,251 people. See Quinn as a last name

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