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Quiana vs Quincy

American parents have registered 33,207 Quincys since 1880, against 3,999 Quianas. Quincy is still ahead, with 757 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quiana against Quincy, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quiana Quincy

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

Quincy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Quiana had 255 and Quincy had 456.

Side by side

  Quiana Quincy
Total US births 3,99933,207
Most in one year 321757
Babies in 2025 5757
Estimated living today 3,90030,000
Median age today 4124
Peak year 19791977
Best rank 571st girls273rd boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd652nd
First recorded 19701880
Girls / boys 3,999 / 05,434 / 27,773

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 Quincys are over 24. That is 17 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 Quincy
England and Wales 21400
France 5225

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 Quincy.