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Quinn vs Quintella

American parents have registered 89,495 Quinns since 1880, against 526 Quintellas. Quinn is still ahead, with 3,297 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quinn Quintella

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 1938, when Quinn had 8 and Quintella had 7.

Side by side

  Quinn Quintella
Total US births 89,495526
Most in one year 4,69818
Babies in 2025 3,297under 5
Estimated living today 88,000460
Median age today 1148
Peak year 20161987
Best rank 79th girls4,474th girls
Rank in 2025 97thunranked
First recorded 19151922
Girls / boys 52,503 / 36,992526 / 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 Quintellas alive today are over 48; half the Quinns are over 11. That is 37 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: Quinn and Quintella.