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Quiana vs Quinley

American parents have registered 3,999 Quianas since 1880, against 774 Quinleys. But in 2025 it was Quinley that was commoner, 48 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quiana Quinley

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 56 years in which either name was published, Quiana for 41 years and Quinley for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Quiana Quinley
Total US births 3,999774
Most in one year 32170
Babies in 2025 548
Estimated living today 3,900770
Median age today 416
Peak year 19792021
Best rank 571st girls2,510th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd3,249th
First recorded 19702004
Girls / boys 3,999 / 0774 / 0

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 Quianas alive today are over 41; half the Quinleys are over 6. That is 35 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Quiana Quinley
England and Wales 213

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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