Girl Names Starting With Q
Quinn leads the Q names for girls: 2,634 babies received it in 2025, putting it at #97 overall. The table spans ranks #97 to #16,701, down to 5 births for Quiari.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #97 | Quinn | 2,634 |
| #815 | Quincy | 335 |
| #2,234 | Queen | 83 |
| #2,745 | Qamar | 63 |
| #3,240 | Quetzalli | 49 |
| #3,286 | Quinley | 48 |
| #3,508 | Quetzali | 44 |
| #3,891 | Quincey | 38 |
| #4,048 | Quinnley | 36 |
| #4,636 | Quetzaly | 30 |
| #5,670 | Quinlan | 22 |
| #5,870 | Quincie | 21 |
| #6,495 | Quinlee | 18 |
| #7,064 | Quinlynn | 16 |
| #7,807 | Quin | 14 |
| #8,236 | Quinnlee | 13 |
| #8,742 | Quinlyn | 12 |
| #9,322 | Quynh | 11 |
| #9,946 | Quinci | 10 |
| #10,721 | Quinnly | 9 |
| #11,685 | Queenie | 8 |
| #11,686 | Quincee | 8 |
| #11,687 | Quinnlyn | 8 |
| #11,688 | Quynn | 8 |
| #14,521 | Quinnleigh | 6 |
| #14,522 | Quorra | 6 |
| #14,523 | Quyen | 6 |
| #16,695 | Qiana | 5 |
| #16,696 | Qilani | 5 |
| #16,697 | Qira | 5 |
| #16,698 | Qori | 5 |
| #16,699 | Quest | 5 |
| #16,700 | Quiana | 5 |
| #16,701 | Quiari | 5 |
Only 34 charted girl names began with Q in the 2025 data — that is the whole honest list, not a truncated one. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin Q girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.
How common is Q as a first letter for girls in 2025?
Count births rather than names and Q lands 23rd of the 26 initials for girls in 2025: 0.3% of the top-1,000 total, spread over 2 names. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims 1 of the table's 34 names, the 101–500 band claims none, the 501–1,000 band claims 1, and 32 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. This list is complete rather than capped: 34 spellings beginning with Q were given to 5 or more girls in 2025, and Quiari closes it at 5 births, the smallest count the SSA publishes.
The 2025 Q table runs from Quinn at #97 to Quiari at #16,701, and Quinn's 2,634 births are 526.8 times Quiari's 5; all 34 rows together sum to 3,591 births. The middle row, the 17th, is Quinlyn at #8,742 with 12 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 2,833 ranks, from Quynn (#11,688) to Quinnleigh (#14,521); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 11 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Queenie (#11,685) and Quincee (#11,686), at 8 births each. Q's top-100 name for 2025 is Quinn (#97), 1 of the table's 34.
How a rank like #97 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.
Q girl names across the decade snapshots
Q girl names appear in the top 200 in 1 of the 7 snapshot years: 2015 (1 name, led by Quinn at #97 with 3,095 births). In the other 6 (1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005), no Q girl name reached rank 200, which is where the committed decade files stop. Quinn was the leading Q girl name in the 2015 snapshot, and Quinn leads again in 2025, at #97.
| Snapshot | Q names in top 200 | Leading Q name | Rank | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s (1955) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1960s (1965) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1970s (1975) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1980s (1985) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990s (1995) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2000s (2005) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2010s (2015) | 1 | Quinn | #97 | 3,095 |
Of the births inside each snapshot's top 200 for girls, Q names took 0.0% in 1955, 0.0% in 1965, 0.0% in 1975, 0.0% in 1985, 0.0% in 1995, 0.0% in 2005 and 0.4% in 2015; the largest of those 7 shares is 2015's and the smallest 1955's. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 1 Q name with 0.4% of its births, led by Quinn at #97. The move from 0.0% (1955) to 0.4% (2015) is Q's row in First-letter trends since 1955, the guide that tabulates all 26 initials for every snapshot year and both sexes, listed with the rest of the data guides.
Faded and new Q girl names
Nothing has faded at the committed depths: each Q girl name found in a snapshot top 200 is still on the 2025 list, and 1 of the table's 34 rows has at least one snapshot appearance.
The 2025 table also carries 33 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Quincy (#815), Queen (#2,234), Qamar (#2,745), Quetzalli (#3,240), Quinley (#3,286), Quetzali (#3,508), Quincey (#3,891), Quinnley (#4,048), Quetzaly (#4,636), Quinlan (#5,670), Quincie (#5,870) and Quinlee (#6,495), and 21 more. Because the committed snapshots stop at rank 200, this says only that Quincy (#815 in 2025) and the other 32 sat outside the top 200 in each of 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, not that they went unregistered in those years.
The shape of the 2025 Q list
Short names (four letters or fewer) number 3 in the 2025 Q table, medium ones (five to seven) 23, and long ones (eight or more) 8. The 2025 rank spans by length class are 3 short spellings from Quin at #7,807 to Qori at #16,698; 23 medium spellings from Quinn at #97 to Quiari at #16,701; and 8 long spellings from Quetzalli at #3,240 to Quinnleigh at #14,521. By letter count, Quin is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (4 letters, #7,807) and Quinnleigh the longest (10 letters, #14,521). "u" is the second letter of 29 of the 34 names in the 2025 Q table, "i" of 3, and "a" of 1; 4 second letters are used in total.
Across the sexes, 7 of these 34 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' Q list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Quinn (#97 for girls, #467 for boys), Quincy (#815 for girls, #654 for boys), Qamar (#2,745 for girls, #11,674 for boys), Quincey (#3,891 for girls, #4,500 for boys), Quinlan (#5,670 for girls, #3,921 for boys), Quin (#7,807 for girls, #5,344 for boys) and Quest (#16,699 for girls, #2,413 for boys).
Q girl names: questions the data answers
What is the most popular girl name starting with Q in 2025?
Quinn. The 2025 SSA data records 2,634 girls named Quinn, which places it at #97 among all girl names that year, inside the overall top 100.
How many girl names starting with Q are in the 2025 top 1,000?
2. Together they account for 0.3% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 23rd-largest share among the 26 initials.
Why does this page list 34 Q girl names?
Because that is every Q girl name the SSA published for 2025: only 34 spellings beginning with Q were given to 5 or more girls, so the list is complete rather than capped at 50.
Which Q girl name on this page has the lowest rank?
Quiari, at #16,701 with 5 births in 2025. A count of 5 is the smallest the SSA publishes; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are withheld entirely, which is why the Q list ends at Quiari, its 34th row, instead of reaching 50.
How many Q girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?
None in 1955 and 1 in 2015 (led by Quinn at #97). Each snapshot is one SSA year ranked to a depth of 200, and Q's highest count among the 7 is 1 in 2015.
Do any of these Q girl names also appear on the boys' Q list for 2025?
Yes, 7 of the 34: Quinn (#97 for girls, #467 for boys), Quincy (#815 for girls, #654 for boys), Qamar (#2,745 for girls, #11,674 for boys), Quincey (#3,891 for girls, #4,500 for boys), Quinlan (#5,670 for girls, #3,921 for boys), Quin (#7,807 for girls, #5,344 for boys) and Quest (#16,699 for girls, #2,413 for boys). The SSA ranks each sex on its own, which is why Quinn carries #97 with 2,634 births for girls and #467 with 663 for boys.
Other letters
Boy names for this letter: boy 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.