Quintin
A Latin name meaning "fifth", the root behind Polish Kwintyn. Only eight men in Poland carry this spelling, and no boy has been given it since 2000: most Poles will never meet one.
Quintin Pronunciation
What Quintin means
Where Quintin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Quintin begins with a number. It comes from the Latin Quintus, the word for fifth, a name Roman families gave to a fifth child or to one born in the fifth month of the old calendar.
The number gathered a story. A Roman named Quintinus took the faith into Gaul and was martyred there in the third century. His name stayed on the map, in the French town of Saint-Quentin, and the church keeps his feast on 31 October. From the Latin Quintinus the shorter Quintin passed into English use, where it has kept its footing for centuries.
On a Polish class register, Quintin would sit among the Kacpers and Antonis, foreign by a letter or two. It reads plainly enough. The count still holds: fifth, piąty, the same tally the Romans made.
How many people are named Quintin
1 in 2668274 men in Poland is named Quintin. 8 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #19323 among male names.
Quintin as a middle name
Quintin is a first name for 8 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6739th, between Que (3) and Quinton (3).
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