Quincy

What Quincy means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Quincy yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 56% of US babies named Quincy in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Quincy?

US: Steady: #598 in 2015, #652 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1279 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1977, when 716 boys got the name (#273 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,048 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 20,918 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.73 per 1,000 boys), KS (0.71 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Quincy is #652 in the US and #1897 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 55.7% of US babies named Quincy were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Quincey23 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Quincy

Boys

• Hayden#161“hay + valley”^*
• Reese#602“ardor”^*
• Reece#460Editor’s note Used for both: 77% of US babies named Reece in 2025 were boys
• Wilson#672Short form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Cade#248“lump, swelling”^*
• Rohan#810“to ascend”^*

For a sister

• Hailey#104“hay + clearing”^*
• Campbell#617“crooked + mouth”^*
• Rylie#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Delaney#242“from the alder grove”^*
• Makenna#593Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2005, with 1,619 babies; 495 in 2025
• Ainsley#483Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #483 vs #2,440 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Quincy’s. Rank is US 2025.