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Quaid vs Quantez

American parents have registered 914 Quaids since 1880, against 627 Quantezes. Quaid is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quaid against Quantez, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quaid Quantez

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 50 years in which either name was published, Quaid for 29 years and Quantez for 21 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Quaid Quantez
Total US births 914627
Most in one year 3732
Babies in 2025 20under 5
Estimated living today 900610
Median age today 1729
Peak year 20081997
Best rank 3,103rd boys2,502nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,857thunranked
First recorded 19711975
Girls / boys 0 / 9140 / 627

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 Quantezes alive today are over 29; half the Quaids are over 17. That is 12 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: Quaid and Quantez.