girls:
48 births since 1998
#5668 (1st percentile)
boys:
939 births since 1991
#3652 (20th percentile)
overall:
987 births since 1991
#6752 (13th percentile)
The name Quest is the #6,752 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 987 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 12.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,652 (20.3% percentile) for all time with 939 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,668 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1998.
Quest first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 1998 for girls).
The name Quest has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.3% of babies named Quest were boys.
For boys, Quest reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #832) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 46 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Quest is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #832 (8.7% percentile) with 46 births per million.
For girls, Quest reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #870) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Quest ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 73.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Quest".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Quest is pronounced as kwehst, which has 1 syllables.
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