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Quadir vs Quaid

American parents have registered 1,964 Quadirs since 1880, against 914 Quaids. Quadir is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quadir against Quaid, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quadir 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 48 years in which either name was published, Quadir for 41 years and Quaid for 7 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Quadir Quaid
Total US births 1,964914
Most in one year 9737
Babies in 2025 2520
Estimated living today 1,900900
Median age today 1717
Peak year 20022008
Best rank 1,357th boys3,103rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th4,857th
First recorded 19771971
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9640 / 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.

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