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Quest: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,870 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,870 in 2022; #2,413 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Quest in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,413 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,870.
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Quest: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,870 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 85 (2022).
In 2025, 57 US boys were named Quest, making it the 2,413th most common boys’ name of the year, down 284 places from #2,129 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 70 boys named Quest in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,870, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #3,853 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quest in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 1,126 US babies have been given the name, 5.2% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 483 babies named Quest.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 651 US boys were named Quest; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,966 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Quest ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,062 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,062 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,113 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,501 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,946 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,861 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,699 | 57 | #2,413 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,873 | 70 | #2,129 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,763 | 84 | #1,889 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,986 | 85 | #1,870 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,946 | 76 | #1,979 |
| 2020 | — | — | 78 | #1,908 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,165 | 70 | #2,078 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,569 | 50 | #2,567 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,498 | 46 | #2,704 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,276 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,853 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,596 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,928 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,666 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,615 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,479 |
| 2009 | — | — | 11 | #7,574 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,582 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,528 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,719 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,787 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #8,019 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,617 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,928 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,947 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,275 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,804 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,904 | 30 | #2,766 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,847 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,373 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,808 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,368 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,419 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #6,022 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,087 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).