Quest
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
Given to boys 94.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 85 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,067since 1991
Quest over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #2,120 | 70 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #1,861 | 85 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,964 | 76 |
| 2020 | — | #1,895 | 78 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,062 | 70 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 2016 | — | #3,230 | 35 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,775 | 28 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,532 | 30 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,804 | 19 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,482 | 16 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,366 | 22 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,525 | 15 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,842 | 21 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,219 | 26 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,293 | 21 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,693 | 17 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Quest! It came in at #6,519, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1993, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Quest is popular in 1991
No state had 5 or more boys named Quest in 1991, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Quest
- 270 spots since 2024 (#2,120 → #2,390)
- 495 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #2,390)
- 1,385 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #2,390)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2022 at #1,861 (85 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,364 boys born in 2023 were named Quest (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,861 in 2022, was only 1 in 20,541 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.2% of all boys named Quest (450) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 140 | #2,711 (1998) | #4,583 |
| 2000s | 145 | #3,219 (2000) | #5,822 |
| 2010s | 332 | #2,062 (2019) | #3,790 |
| 2020s | 450 | #1,861 (2022) | #2,018 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Quest in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 288,618 of them was named Quest, which outranked 32.4% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,942Zackaria8
- #5,942Zan8
- #5,942Zephan8
- #6,519Quest7
- #6,519Aaronmichael7
- #6,519Abayomi7
- #6,519Abed7
- #7,271Aaronjames6
- #7,271Abad6
- #7,271Abanoub6
Tied with 751 names at #6,519; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.