Quincy

Meaning: Fifth-born
Origin: From Latin via Old French

Girl's name · #815 in the US (2025) · Trending

39% girls · 61% boys — About 61% of babies named Quincy in recent years have been boys. Quincy →

Popularity over time

Quincy is climbing: on the charts since 1892, it reached #815 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 340 girls given the name last year. Roughly 5,400 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

In recent years, Quincy ran 7–11× its national rate in Utah, Idaho and Montana—ranked #88 in Montana in 2025.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 26 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Quincy ranks in other countries and regions.

#1,679 in Canada (2024).

Famous Quincys

Quincy Sumbo Ayodele — Nigerian herbal medicine practitioner and entrepreneur
Quincy Kissiedu-Brown — American academic in the field of computer science
Quincy Penn — Bahamian sprinter (born 2005)
Quincy D. Newell — American historian of the nineteenth-century American West
Quincy McMahon — American soccer player (born 2002)

What Quincys become

Among 176 notable people named Quincy:

Sports figures appear 3.12× more often than among typical names — e.g. Quincy Penn, Bahamian sprinter (born 2005).

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