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Quadir vs Quantaya

American parents have registered 1,964 Quadirs since 1880, against 21 Quantayas. Quadir is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quadir Quantaya

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

Quadir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Quadir had 55 and Quantaya had 16.

Side by side

  Quadir Quantaya
Total US births 1,96421
Most in one year 9716
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 1,90020
Median age today 1725
Peak year 20022000
Best rank 1,357th boys6,487th girls
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19772000
Girls / boys 0 / 1,96421 / 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 Quantayas alive today are over 25; half the Quadirs are over 17. That is 8 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 Quantaya.