Girl Names That Start With Q
Girls' 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 girls, 2025
- 0.22%
- vs 0.05% in 2000
- Names in use
- 34
- 292 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2017
- at 0.26% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #25
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,634#97 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 83#2,234 | Down 1,271 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 335#815 | Up 380 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5#16,696 | Down 1,986 rank positions in five years | 1979 | |||
| 8#11,681 | Down 5,876 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 5#16,691 | Down 7,873 rank positions in five years | 1978 | |||
| 49#3,240 | Up 1,735 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 38#3,890 | Up 1,387 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 48#3,286 | Down 547 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 22#5,669 | Up 2,635 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 30#4,635 | Up 2,225 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 14#7,805 | Down 2,357 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 12#8,740 | Down 1,593 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 44#3,507 | Up 4,351 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 36#4,047 | Down 322 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 63#2,745 | Up 1,241 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8#11,683 | Down 5,414 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 11#9,319 | Up 5,393 rank positions in five years | 1981 | |||
| 6#14,519 | new | 1983 | |||
| 8#11,682 | Down 2,863 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 21#5,869 | Up 8,842 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 10#9,943 | Up 7,031 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 16#7,062 | Up 422 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 18#6,494 | Down 1,870 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 6#14,518 | Down 6,213 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 8#11,684 | Up 1,460 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 13#8,234 | Down 749 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 9#10,717 | Down 623 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 6#14,517 | Down 1,374 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 5#16,693 | Down 9,210 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 5#16,695 | new | 1998 | |||
| 5#16,692 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#16,694 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#16,697 | new | 2025 |
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Q names climbing fastest
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.