Entry № 8393 · Irish origin

Quinn Quinn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KWIN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Wise counsel"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Surname: ancient

A name that means "wise counsel".

Quinn comes from the Irish surname Ó Cuinn, meaning "descendant of Conn" — where Conn itself comes from the Old Irish conn, meaning "wisdom," "counsel," or "chief." It was traditionally a male surname before becoming an increasingly female given name in the late twentieth century.

Quinn is unisex in current use but is given to girls more often than boys in the U.S. Today it sits in the U.S.

Wise counsel — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Quinn
Transliteration
Quinn
Pronunciation
/ kwɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Quinn stands.

Quinn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Quinns before her.

Real people
Quinn Cook
American professional basketball player.
born 1993
In fiction
Quinn Fabray
Character in the TV series Glee.
Fox, 2009–2015

Names connected to Quinn.

The number behind Quinn.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Quinn reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.