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Qusay

#6,353 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly distant

Qusay has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #6,353 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Qusay, 2025

1 in 237,000

Qusay over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Qusay: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly distant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Qusay means

Qusay may mean “distant”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 168 boys were recorded with the name Qusay between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,461 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,933 in 2020 to #6,353 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,900 in 2015 to #6,353 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Qusay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,353
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Qusay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Qusay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Qusays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Qusay was born before 2018 — so the typical Qusay is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Qusay 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
+370
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+580
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,547
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.4%
Peak was 2017 (17)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,461
2017

Spellings of Qusay

Qusay is not the most common spelling — Rusty is, with 42.8% against Qusay's 0.40%.

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 Qusay is used

Across 1910–2025, Qusay was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,326,200 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Qusay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Qusay around the world

Where Qusay 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 & Wales
    2008–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #6,647
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Qusay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,353
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 580
Best rank ever
#5,461
2017
Peak year
2017
17 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
168
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Qusay

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Qusay

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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