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Quiana vs Quince

American parents have registered 3,999 Quianas since 1880, against 588 Quinces. But in 2025 it was Quince that was commoner, 8 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quiana against Quince, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quiana Quince

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 100 years in which either name was published, Quiana for 51 years and Quince for 49 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Quiana Quince
Total US births 3,999588
Most in one year 32114
Babies in 2025 58
Estimated living today 3,900370
Median age today 4140
Peak year 19791964
Best rank 571st girls2,205th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd8,910th
First recorded 19701884
Girls / boys 3,999 / 00 / 588

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Quiana and Quince.