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Quincy vs Quintrell

American parents have registered 33,207 Quincys since 1880, against 513 Quintrells. Quincy is still ahead, with 757 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quincy against Quintrell, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quincy Quintrell

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

Quincy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Quincy had 429 and Quintrell had 17.

Side by side

  Quincy Quintrell
Total US births 33,207513
Most in one year 75720
Babies in 2025 7578
Estimated living today 30,000500
Median age today 2419
Peak year 19772009
Best rank 273rd boys4,748th boys
Rank in 2025 652nd8,910th
First recorded 18801976
Girls / boys 5,434 / 27,7730 / 513

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 Quincys alive today are over 24; half the Quintrells are over 19. That is 5 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: Quincy and Quintrell.