Quintilla as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Quintilla

What is the meaning of the name Quintilla ?

The baby name Quintilla is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced KWIN-TIL-uh (IPA: /kwɪnˈtɪlə/).

Quintilla is Latin in Origin.

Quintilla is the Latin feminine diminutive of Quintus (“fifth”), likely through the form Quintillus, giving the sense “little fifth” or “fifth-born.” In Roman practice such names marked birth order or timing - Quintilis was the name of the calendar month later renamed July - so Quintilla would have signaled a connection with the numeral five.

Attested in inscriptions across the Roman world as a feminine cognomen and sometimes surviving in medieval records, the name remains rare in modern use. It appears sporadically in Iberian and Latin American contexts, where Spanish also knows quintilla as a five-line stanza form, lending the name a subtle literary echo. Variants and relatives include Quintila (Portuguese/Spanish), Quintilia (from the gens Quintilia), Quinta, Quintina, and the elaboration Quintella; short forms may include Quin and Tilla. Usage in English-speaking countries is uncommon, making Quintilla a distinctive, historically rooted choice.

⚙ Quintilla is extremely rare. Our whole dataset turns up only 3 recorded uses, across 1 country.