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Quadir vs Quashaun

American parents have registered 1,964 Quadirs since 1880, against 186 Quashauns. Quadir is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quadir Quashaun

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

Quadir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Quadir had 19 and Quashaun had 17.

Side by side

  Quadir Quashaun
Total US births 1,964186
Most in one year 9717
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 1,900180
Median age today 1727
Peak year 20021991
Best rank 1,357th boys3,462nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19771991
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9640 / 186

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 Quashauns alive today are over 27; half the Quadirs are over 17. That is 10 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: Quadir and Quashaun.