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Quindon vs Quinn

American parents have registered 89,495 Quinns since 1880, against 114 Quindons. Quinn is still ahead, with 3,297 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quindon against Quinn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quindon Quinn

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

Quinn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Quindon had 67 and Quinn had 985.

Side by side

  Quindon Quinn
Total US births 11489,495
Most in one year 674,698
Babies in 2025 under 53,297
Estimated living today 11088,000
Median age today 2911
Peak year 19962016
Best rank 1,500th boys79th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked97th
First recorded 19961915
Girls / boys 0 / 11452,503 / 36,992

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 Quindons alive today are over 29; half the Quinns are over 11. That is 18 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: Quindon and Quinn.