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Quinten vs Quintez

American parents have registered 8,098 Quintens since 1880, against 664 Quintezes. Quinten is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quinten Quintez

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

Quinten has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Quinten had 115 and Quintez had 31.

Side by side

  Quinten Quintez
Total US births 8,098664
Most in one year 25631
Babies in 2025 65under 5
Estimated living today 7,500650
Median age today 2226
Peak year 20001991
Best rank 691st boys2,295th boys
Rank in 2025 2,183rdunranked
First recorded 19131976
Girls / boys 0 / 8,0980 / 664

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 Quintezes alive today are over 26; half the Quintens are over 22. That is 4 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.

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