Quest
Quest was given to 57 boys in 2025, #2,413 among boys’ names; 1,126 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Quest and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quest by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Quest?
#2,413 among boys’ names, 2025
Quest rose from #3,852 in 2015 to #2,413 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 33.4 per million.
93 babies in 2022, the peak
Quest peaked in 2022, when 93 babies were given it (85 boys, #1,870 among boys’ names). The 62 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,413 | 33.4 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,129 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,889 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 85 | #1,870 | 48.7 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,978 | 43.4 |
| 2020 | 78 | #1,908 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,077 | 39.0 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,566 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,703 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,275 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,852 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,594 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,925 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,660 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,610 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,478 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,569 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,577 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,524 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,715 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,782 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,013 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,610 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,921 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,941 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,269 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,799 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,763 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,842 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,367 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,802 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,362 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,413 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,015 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,080 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Quest a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,126 Americans recorded as Quest, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 57 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Quest: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quest, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,126 Americans ever recorded as Quest. The median Quest alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 635 people named Quest (55 women and girls, 580 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 69 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 271 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 773 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Quest born?
The states with the most babies named Quest are California, North Carolina and Virginia, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,946 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,113 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,062 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,861 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,501 | 1.0× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Quest with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Quest
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Quest and names like it
- Compare Quest and RidgeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sQuest peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Quest since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Quest.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Quest alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with QMost given first.