Quante — boys' name
294 babies named Quante in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Quante was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Quante in 1995 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Quante
The Social Security Administration has registered 294 babies named Quante between 1979 and 2017, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Quante currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Quante performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 158 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Quante shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Maryland, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Quante in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Quante in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 294 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Quante at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Quante popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1979
- Peak year (1995)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
294 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1995 with 21 births in a single year.
Quante popularity over time — girls
6 total births recorded since 1986 (Quante as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Quante accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Quante by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 158 births that decade — 54% of Quante's all-time total
Quante decade highlights
- Peak decade 158 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Quante's strongest decade
158 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Quante by state
Where Quante concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Maryland | | 5 | 1.7% |
5 of 294 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Maryland 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Maryland accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.