Qi
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Qi has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.
Babies named Qi, 2018
1 in 703,000
Qi over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Qi over time
In 2018, Qi went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Qi?
Qi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Qi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Qi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Qis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Qi was born before 2003 — so the typical Qi is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 64.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Qi rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (7)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Qi around the world
Where Qi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2013#3,822in 2013
- Scotland2005–2005#535in 2005
- France2014–2014#5,502in 2014
- Canada1995–1995#1,910in 1995
- South Australia2008–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Qi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Qi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Qi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.