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Quinton vs Quintrell

American parents have registered 31,665 Quintons since 1880, against 513 Quintrells. Quinton is still ahead, with 235 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quinton against Quintrell, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quinton 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

Quinton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1903 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Quinton had 479 and Quintrell had 19.

Side by side

  Quinton Quintrell
Total US births 31,665513
Most in one year 87120
Babies in 2025 2358
Estimated living today 28,000500
Median age today 2819
Peak year 19962009
Best rank 302nd boys4,748th boys
Rank in 2025 973rd8,910th
First recorded 19031976
Girls / boys 42 / 31,6230 / 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 Quintons alive today are over 28; half the Quintrells are over 19. That is 9 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: Quinton and Quintrell.