Boy Names Starting With Q

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin Q boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

How common Q names are

4 of the 1,000 most-registered boy names of 2025 start with Q, and together they account for 0.11% of the births in that list — the 25th-largest share among the 26 initials. The letter's #1 name, Quinn, holds overall rank #467 with 663 births; its 39th and last name, Quinston, was recorded 5 times at #13,421. Only 39 boy names starting with Q qualified in 2025, so the table stops at 39 rather than the 50 the other letters reach — that is the whole list, not a truncated one.

That 0.11% is Q's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 4-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 39-name depth of the table above.

Q names across the decades

None of the 7 snapshot years, 1955 through 2015, has a boy name starting with Q inside its top 200, so there is no decade table to show for this letter. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds no Q name at all — the letter's first entry that year, Quinn, sits at #467.

Because no Q name reaches a top-200 list in any of those years, the letter's share of top-200 births is zero in every snapshot and in 2025 alike. The first-letter trends guide sets Q's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.

Faded and new

Because no Q boy name reaches any snapshot's top 200, there is nothing to list as faded: the 7 snapshot files contain no Q entries to set against the 2025 table.

All 39 names on the 2025 Q list are absent from every snapshot top 200; the first 12 by rank are Quinn (#467), Quincy (#654), Quentin (#968), Quinton (#976), Quintin (#1,899), Quinten (#2,205), Quade (#2,299), Qasim (#2,327), Quest (#2,413), Qais (#2,922), Quill (#3,361), and Quamir (#3,428), and the remaining 27 follow in the table above.

Read both lists against the depths that produce them — 200 ranks per snapshot year, 39 names for Q in 2025 with the last at #13,421: a name missing from a snapshot may sit below rank 200 that year, and a name missing from the 2025 list may sit below Quinston; the committed files do not say.

Shape of the list

Medium spellings of five to seven letters account for 30 of the 39 names on the 2025 list (Quinn, for one); 4 are short at four letters or fewer (Qais, for one), and 5 run to eight letters or more (Quinnton, for one). The longest spelling on the 2025 list is Quantavious at 11 letters and the shortest is Que at 3.

35 of the 39 names rank past #1,000, beyond the top-1,000 list the generator's 2025 era samples; the rest divide into 0 inside the top 100, 1 at ranks 101–500, and 3 at 501–1,000.

7 names on this list also appear on the 2025 girls' Q list, each ranked separately per sex by the SSA: Quinn (#467 for boys, #97 for girls), Quincy (#654 for boys, #815 for girls), Quest (#2,413 for boys, #16,699 for girls), Quinlan (#3,921 for boys, #5,670 for girls), Quincey (#4,500 for boys, #3,891 for girls), Quin (#5,344 for boys, #7,807 for girls), and Qamar (#11,674 for boys, #2,745 for girls). Second letters on the 2025 list number 2; u leads them, opening 34 of the 39 names (Qu-), with Qa- (5) next.

Q boy names: questions answered from the data

Other letters

Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with Q.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.