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Quaid vs Quamir

American parents have registered 914 Quaids since 1880, against 663 Quamirs. But in 2025 it was Quamir that was commoner, 34 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quaid against Quamir, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quaid Quamir

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 40 years in which either name was published, Quaid for 31 years and Quamir for 9 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Quaid Quamir
Total US births 914663
Most in one year 3741
Babies in 2025 2034
Estimated living today 900650
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20082024
Best rank 3,103rd boys3,001st boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th3,379th
First recorded 19711989
Girls / boys 0 / 9140 / 663

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: Quaid and Quamir.