The Quintana surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 37,657 people carried this name — #923 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,830 people counted. That is up 27% from 29,755 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Quintana surname
From Romance (Spanish Quintana and Portuguese Quintana).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Quintana» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 52,605 people named Quintana live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 414 people named Quintana.
170 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 35 départements, most often Pyrénées-Orientales.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
110 people named Quintana live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
30 people named Quintana is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Quintana in American newspapers,
1876–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 26,200 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Quintana,
with a public archive behind them.
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Manuel José Quintana 1772–1857 · writer -
Andrés Quintana Roo 1787–1851 · writer -
Manuel Quintana 1835–1906 · lawyer -
Orestes Quintana 1880–1909 · association football referee -
Juanito Quintana 1891–1974 · hotel manager
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 196 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Quintana.
- Quinette 129 · U.S. census
- Quinn 76,986 · U.S. census
- Quinones 34,468 · U.S. census
- Quint 2,639 · U.S. census
- Quinta 156 · U.S. census
- Quintal 1,679 · U.S. census
- Quintard 123 · U.S. census
- Quinten 112 · U.S. census
- Quintin 676 · U.S. census
- Quinto 2,746 · U.S. census
- Quinton 3,452 · U.S. census
- Quintus 222 · U.S. census
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