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Quinten vs Quintina

American parents have registered 8,098 Quintens since 1880, against 1,017 Quintinas. Quinten is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quinten Quintina

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 97 years and Quintina for 10 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Quinten Quintina
Total US births 8,0981,017
Most in one year 25654
Babies in 2025 65under 5
Estimated living today 7,500960
Median age today 2246
Peak year 20001976
Best rank 691st boys1,747th girls
Rank in 2025 2,183rdunranked
First recorded 19131953
Girls / boys 0 / 8,0981,017 / 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 Quintinas alive today are over 46; half the Quintens are over 22. That is 24 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 Quintina.