Girls' name · since 1962
Quana
Quana has 260 recorded births since 1962 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1978 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,235 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 260
- born since 1962
- 1970s
- peak decade
Quana is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 260 have been recorded since 1962.
Quana has 260 recorded births among girls since 1962, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1962 to 1991.
- #17,235 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 260 born since 1962
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Quana ranks #17,235 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 260 born since 1962, peaking in the 1970s.
- #17,235 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 260
- born since 1962
- 1970s
- peak decade
Quana's 260 recorded births place it above 76.15% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Quana's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Quana's SSA record in two at 1979 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1962, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1978 peak of 25, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Quana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1962–1991
- Peak year (1978)
- 25
- Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
Quana by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (120 births, 46% of the file).
1970s was Quana's strongest decade.
120 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Quana births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 15
1960s
15 births
- 1970s
1970s
120 births
- 1980s
1980s
109 births
- 1990s 16
1990s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 120 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Quana's decade-level peak was the 1970s (120 total births); usage has since declined to 16 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Quana: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~29 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1962–1991 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Quana draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.