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Quintin vs Quintrell

American parents have registered 15,565 Quintins since 1880, against 513 Quintrells. Quintin is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quintin Quintrell

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

Quintin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Quintin had 83 and Quintrell had 8.

Side by side

  Quintin Quintrell
Total US births 15,565513
Most in one year 40520
Babies in 2025 838
Estimated living today 14,000500
Median age today 2719
Peak year 19972009
Best rank 505th boys4,748th boys
Rank in 2025 1,886th8,910th
First recorded 19121976
Girls / boys 7 / 15,5580 / 513

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 Quintins alive today are over 27; half the Quintrells are over 19. That is 8 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: Quintin and Quintrell.