Quest — #2122 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Quest

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,009 babies named Quest between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Quest currently holds the #2122 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 85 babies received it in a single year. Quest is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Quest performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 393 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Quest shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 109 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Quest in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Quest 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 1,009 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.