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Quang vs Quarterrio

American parents have registered 733 Quangs since 1880, against 11 Quarterrios. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quang Quarterrio

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

Quang has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1978, when Quang had 12 and Quarterrio had 11.

Side by side

  Quang Quarterrio
Total US births 73311
Most in one year 4211
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 70010
Median age today 3647
Peak year 19811978
Best rank 1,479th boys3,400th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19751978
Girls / boys 0 / 7330 / 11

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 Quarterrios alive today are over 47; half the Quangs are over 36. That is 11 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: Quang and Quarterrio.