Quinn

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Primarily a girl's name · Unisex — 58% girls / 42% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Quinn is a unisex given name, derived from an Irish surname. Notable people with the given name include:

From Wikipedia

Quinn first appears in the data in 1948 and has been recorded in 66 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2016 with 3,648 babies (rank #79 that year). In 2024 it was given to 2,689 girls (rank #96). Its popularity has been fairly steady recently.

Numerology of Quinn

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Quinn yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

86,174
Total babies (all years)
66
Years in the data
3,648
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

Editor’s take on Quinn

Almost no net change for Quinn over the past decade, up a mere 5% — though the count and rank moved on different schedules: 3,648 births was the count's high, back in 2016, while the rank didn't hit its own best, #73, until six years later, in 2022.

This name enters the record in 1948, sixty-eight years into the dataset.

Actor Ciara Bravo is the only name the enrichment data offers, her career starting well after Quinn's own 2016 high.

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19485#5,843
19575#6,804
19607#5,570
196112#3,951
19626#6,389
196321#2,759
196414#3,648
196517#3,124
196624#2,504
196717#3,178
196822#2,770
196923#2,819
197022#3,086
197123#3,037
197212#4,719
197411#5,254
197516#4,084
197622#3,257
19778#7,365
197866#1,626
1979146#982
1980104#1,258
198197#1,312
1982141#1,037
198396#1,283
1984101#1,264
198580#1,532
198674#1,612
198782#1,552
198893#1,473
198978#1,747
199096#1,583
1991107#1,480
1992109#1,460
1993131#1,296
1994160#1,128
1995201#943
1996194#982
1997206#963
1998282#764
1999334#681
2000297#770
2001306#775
2002336#726
2003394#671
2004401#687
2005407#682
2006545#544
2007523#576
2008599#516
2009630#488
20101,279#255
20111,692#188
20122,110#153
20132,653#119
20142,554#126
20153,095#97
20163,648#79
20173,597#76
20183,388#85
20193,208#83
20203,078#84
20213,201#81
20223,102#73
20232,853#86
20242,689#96