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Quintella vs Quinten

American parents have registered 8,098 Quintens since 1880, against 526 Quintellas. Quinten is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quintella 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 Quintella for 8 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Quintella Quinten
Total US births 5268,098
Most in one year 18256
Babies in 2025 under 565
Estimated living today 4607,500
Median age today 4822
Peak year 19872000
Best rank 4,474th girls691st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,183rd
First recorded 19221913
Girls / boys 526 / 00 / 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 Quintellas 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Quintella and Quinten.