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Quamir vs Quang

American parents have registered 733 Quangs since 1880, against 663 Quamirs. But in 2025 it was Quamir that was commoner, 34 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quamir Quang

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 51 years in which either name was published, Quamir for 28 years and Quang for 23 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Quamir Quang
Total US births 663733
Most in one year 4142
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 650700
Median age today 1636
Peak year 20241981
Best rank 3,001st boys1,479th boys
Rank in 2025 3,379thunranked
First recorded 19891975
Girls / boys 0 / 6630 / 733

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 Quangs alive today are over 36; half the Quamirs are over 16. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Quamir and Quang.