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.
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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
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).
- #12,448Zyleah7
- #12,448Zyleigh7
- #12,448Zyrie7
- #13,799Quest6
- #13,799Aabha6
- #13,799Aabriella6
- #13,799Aadrika6
- #15,539Aaditri5
- #15,539Aadiya5
- #15,539Aaila5
Tied with 1,739 names at #13,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
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).
- #2,042Rafe71
- #2,042Reef71
- #2,042Tremaine71
- #2,062Quest70
- #2,062Alias70
- #2,062Charleston70
- #2,062Demetri70
- #2,081Ames69
- #2,081Andrey69
- #2,081Arie69
Tied with 18 names at #2,062; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.