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Quadir vs Quayshawn

American parents have registered 1,964 Quadirs since 1880, against 177 Quayshawns. Quadir is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Quadir Quayshawn

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 46 years and Quayshawn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Quadir Quayshawn
Total US births 1,964177
Most in one year 9750
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 1,900170
Median age today 1731
Peak year 20021991
Best rank 1,357th boys1,768th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19771991
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9645 / 172

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 Quayshawns alive today are over 31; half the Quadirs are over 17. That is 14 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 Quayshawn.