Quenten — boys' name
735 babies named Quenten in U.S. Social Security records since 1918, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Quenten was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Quenten in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Quenten
The Social Security Administration has registered 735 babies named Quenten between 1918 and 2022, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Quenten currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Quenten performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 223 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Quenten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Quenten in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Quenten 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 735 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.
Quenten at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Quenten popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1918
- Peak year (2000)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 105 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
735 total births across 105 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 30 births in a single year.
Quenten by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 223 births that decade — 30% of Quenten's all-time total
Quenten decade highlights
- Peak decade 223 births
- Runner-up 213 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Quenten's strongest decade
223 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Quenten by state
Where Quenten concentrates geographically — total births since 1918
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 0.7% |
5 of 735 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 0.7% 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, 1918–2022 (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.