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Quintella vs Quintin

American parents have registered 15,565 Quintins since 1880, against 526 Quintellas. Quintin is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quintella against Quintin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quintella Quintin

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 114 years in which either name was published, Quintin for 112 years and Quintella for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Quintella Quintin
Total US births 52615,565
Most in one year 18405
Babies in 2025 under 583
Estimated living today 46014,000
Median age today 4827
Peak year 19871997
Best rank 4,474th girls505th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,886th
First recorded 19221912
Girls / boys 526 / 07 / 15,558

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 Quintins are over 27. That is 21 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 Quintin.