Quetzali

#3,507 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Quetzali has been given to 454 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #3,507 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Quetzali, 2025

1 in 75,300

Quetzali over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Quetzali?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,507
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Quetzali sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quetzali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Quetzalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Quetzali was born before 2015 — so the typical Quetzali is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
454
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Quetzali 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
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,351
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,849
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.8%
Peak was 2024 (45)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,497
2024

Spellings of Quetzali

Quetzali is not the most common spelling — Quetzalli is, with 45.2% against Quetzali's 23.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Quetzali is used

Across 1910–2025, Quetzali was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 197,528 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Quetzali has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Quetzali by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,507
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,351
Best rank ever
#3,497
2024
Peak year
2024
45 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
454
Count in 2025
44

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Sibling names for Quetzali

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