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Quan vs Quayshawn

American parents have registered 1,464 Quans since 1880, against 177 Quayshawns. Quan is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quan against Quayshawn, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quan 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 58 years in which either name was published, Quan for 57 years and Quayshawn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Quan Quayshawn
Total US births 1,464177
Most in one year 4350
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 1,400170
Median age today 3031
Peak year 19951991
Best rank 1,955th boys1,768th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 19661991
Girls / boys 39 / 1,4255 / 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Quan and Quayshawn.