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Quadir vs Quanita

American parents have registered 1,964 Quadirs since 1880, against 547 Quanitas. Quadir is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quadir Quanita

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 62 years in which either name was published, Quadir for 34 years and Quanita for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Quadir Quanita
Total US births 1,964547
Most in one year 9727
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 1,900520
Median age today 1741
Peak year 20021989
Best rank 1,357th boys3,673rd girls
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19771959
Girls / boys 0 / 1,964547 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Quanitas alive today are over 41; half the Quadirs are over 17. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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