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

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Peak · boys
2022 · 85 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,067
since 1991

Quest over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #9,260, 1998girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#14,9425#2,39057
2024#13,4776#2,12070
2023#13,4626#1,87584
2022#11,2318#1,86185
2021#11,1468#1,96476
2020#1,89578
2019#13,7996#2,06270
2018#15,6825#2,54650
2017#14,1246#2,67246
2016#3,23035
2015#3,77528
2014#3,53230
2013#4,80419
2012#5,48216
2011#5,43316
2010#4,36622
2009#7,23611
2008#7,18711
2007#6,26213
2006#5,52515
2005#4,63118
2004#7,5369
2003#6,25811
2002#6,52210
2001#3,84221
2000#3,21926
1999#3,70420
1998#9,2609#2,71130
1997#3,73818
1996#3,29321
1995#3,69317
1994#5,10911
1993#6,8167
1992#5,6609
1991#6,5197
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First appearance
1991

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.

See more about Quest
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,861 (85 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,364
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 42.2% of all boys named Quest (450) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s140#2,711 (1998)#4,583
2000s145#3,219 (2000)#5,822
2010s332#2,062 (2019)#3,790
2020s450#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 2019

girls
#13,799
6 births · 1 in 279,728 girls
boys
#2,062
70 births · 1 in 25,632 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #13,799Quest6

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #2,062Quest70
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 279,728 of them was named Quest, which outranked 23.4% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Quest
  1. #12,448Zyleah7
  2. #12,448Zyleigh7
  3. #12,448Zyrie7
  4. #13,799Quest6
  5. #13,799Aabha6
  6. #13,799Aabriella6
  7. #13,799Aadrika6
  8. #15,539Aaditri5
  9. #15,539Aadiya5
  10. #15,539Aaila5

Tied with 1,739 names at #13,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 25,632 of them was named Quest, which outranked 85.4% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Quest
  1. #2,042Rafe71
  2. #2,042Reef71
  3. #2,042Tremaine71
  4. #2,062Quest70
  5. #2,062Alias70
  6. #2,062Charleston70
  7. #2,062Demetri70
  8. #2,081Ames69
  9. #2,081Andrey69
  10. #2,081Arie69

Tied with 18 names at #2,062; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019