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Quincey vs Quinten

American parents have registered 8,098 Quintens since 1880, against 2,713 Quinceys. Quinten is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quincey against Quinten, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quincey Quinten

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 108 years in which either name was published, Quinten for 100 years and Quincey for 8 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Quincey Quinten
Total US births 2,7138,098
Most in one year 71256
Babies in 2025 6165
Estimated living today 2,6007,500
Median age today 2322
Peak year 20022000
Best rank 2,068th boys691st boys
Rank in 2025 4,396th2,183rd
First recorded 19131913
Girls / boys 786 / 1,9270 / 8,098

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.

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 Quincey Quinten
England and Wales 2085

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: Quincey and Quinten.