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Quiana vs Quincey

American parents have registered 3,999 Quianas since 1880, against 2,713 Quinceys. But in 2025 it was Quincey that was commoner, 61 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quiana against Quincey, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quiana Quincey

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 82 years in which either name was published, Quincey for 55 years and Quiana for 27 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Quiana Quincey
Total US births 3,9992,713
Most in one year 32171
Babies in 2025 561
Estimated living today 3,9002,600
Median age today 4123
Peak year 19792002
Best rank 571st girls2,068th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd4,396th
First recorded 19701913
Girls / boys 3,999 / 0786 / 1,927

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 Quianas alive today are over 41; half the Quinceys are over 23. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Quiana Quincey
England and Wales 2120

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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