Boy Names That Start With Q
Boys' names beginning with Q, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 0.14%
- vs 0.25% in 2000
- Names in use
- 39
- 307 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1997
- at 0.28% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #26
- by 2025 share
How Q has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with Q, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 238#968 | Down 435 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 663#467 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 235#976 | Down 292 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 422#654 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 83#1,899 | Down 736 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 65#2,205 | Down 796 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 11#7,553 | Down 3,926 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 28#3,920 | Down 595 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 25#4,220 | Down 2,205 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 22#4,668 | Down 557 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 23#4,499 | Down 790 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 18#5,342 | Down 1,634 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 12#7,088 | Down 1,909 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 61#2,299 | Up 494 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 60#2,327 | Up 859 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 57#2,413 | Down 505 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 20#5,000 | Down 1,293 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 34#3,427 | Up 2,473 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 8#9,485 | Up 849 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 11#7,554 | Down 3,171 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 6#11,671 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 8#9,486 | Up 850 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 19#5,154 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 6#11,672 | new | 1999 | |||
| 43#2,921 | Up 1,317 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,752 | Up 4,822 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 35#3,360 | Down 484 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 5#13,415 | Down 6,035 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 5#13,413 | Down 4,071 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 8#9,487 | Down 2,555 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 6#11,670 | Up 1,896 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 14#6,353 | Up 580 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 5#13,416 | new | 2011 | |||
| 6#11,674 | Up 1,896 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 9#8,751 | Down 832 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 6#11,673 | new | 1995 | |||
| 5#13,417 | new | 2014 | |||
| 11#7,552 | Up 2,780 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5#13,414 | new | 2023 |
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Biggest Q names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.