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Quadir vs Quantavious

American parents have registered 1,964 Quadirs since 1880, against 533 Quantaviouses. Quadir is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quadir against Quantavious, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quadir Quantavious

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 47 years in which either name was published, Quadir for 41 years and Quantavious for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Quadir Quantavious
Total US births 1,964533
Most in one year 9738
Babies in 2025 256
Estimated living today 1,900520
Median age today 1726
Peak year 20021997
Best rank 1,357th boys2,228th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th10,695th
First recorded 19771980
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9640 / 533

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 Quantaviouses alive today are over 26; half the Quadirs are over 17. That is 9 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: Quadir and Quantavious.