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Quint vs Quinten

American parents have registered 8,098 Quintens since 1880, against 687 Quints. Quinten is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quint 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 107 years in which either name was published, Quinten for 100 years and Quint for 7 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Quint Quinten
Total US births 6878,098
Most in one year 88256
Babies in 2025 under 565
Estimated living today 6207,500
Median age today 4822
Peak year 19642000
Best rank 806th boys691st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,183rd
First recorded 19591913
Girls / boys 0 / 6870 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Quints alive today are over 48; half the Quintens are over 22. That is 26 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 Quint Quinten
Belgium 153,683

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: Quint and Quinten.