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Quade vs Quaid

American parents have registered 1,407 Quades since 1880, against 914 Quaids. Quade is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quade against Quaid, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quade Quaid

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Quade for 35 years and Quaid for 7 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Quade Quaid
Total US births 1,407914
Most in one year 6437
Babies in 2025 6120
Estimated living today 1,400900
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20242008
Best rank 2,236th boys3,103rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,284th4,857th
First recorded 19841971
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4070 / 914

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Quade Quaid
England and Wales 9466

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Quade and Quaid.