Quartus as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Quartus

What is the meaning of the name Quartus ?

The baby name Quartus is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced English: /ˈkwɔːrtəs/ (KWOR-təs); Classical Latin: /ˈkʷar.tus/ (KWAHR-tus).

Quartus is Latin in Origin.

From Latin quartus, “fourth,” this name began as a Roman cognomen indicating birth order and appears in inscriptions across the empire. In the New Testament (Romans 16:23), a believer named Quartus sends greetings from Corinth, and later Christian tradition counts Quartus of Berytus among the Seventy, helping the name persist in ecclesiastical calendars. Revived in occasional Protestant use through direct reading of Scripture, it has never been common in English but remains recognizable to classicists and church historians.

Variants include the Latin diminutive Quartinus; feminine forms Quarta and Quartilla; and the Greek-transcribed Kouartos in early Christian texts. Cognates are scarce in modern languages, though Italian Quarto and surnominal forms occur. Related ordinal names are Primus, Secundus, Tertius, Quintus, and Sextus. Quartus carries the straightforward meaning “the fourth,” appealing to families honoring a fourth child or a namesake lineage.

⚙ Quartus is seldom given. We count 12 recorded uses of it across 3 countries.