Is Quinn a male or female name?
Quinn is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 58% and male usage in England and Wales at 54%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 57%
- Sample size
- 105,333
- Confidence
- high
Quinn by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 58% | 86,098 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 56% | 11,837 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | male | 54% | 6,644 | ons |
| Ireland IE | female | 59% | 388 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | male | 70% | 291 | bfs |
| Austria AT | male | 66% | 38 | statat |
| France FR | unknown | 50% | 20 | insee |
| Poland PL | male | 65% | 17 | pesel |
Attested in 13 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · FR · GB · IE · IN · NZ · PL · SE · US
Quinn over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Quinn in the 1920s were girls, against 81.3% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 0% | 112 |
| 1930s | 0% | 108 |
| 1940s | 3% | 150 |
| 1950s | 1% | 353 |
| 1960s | 14% | 1,162 |
| 1970s | 17% | 1,872 |
| 1980s | 30% | 3,205 |
| 1990s | 22% | 8,396 |
| 2000s | 29% | 15,527 |
| 2010s | 74% | 36,818 |
| 2020s | 81% | 18,338 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Quinn with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Quinn&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Quinn
Is Quinn a male or female name?
Quinn is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 58% and male usage in England and Wales at 54%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Quinn change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Quinn identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.