Quincey
Masculine · “estate of Quintus”
Quincey is given to both — 1,927 boys and 786 girls since 1880. See Quincey as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Quincey counts to five in Latin, by way of a Roman landowner, a French village and a Norman family.
How old is the name Quincey?
Quincey first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Quincey alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,800 people named Quincey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Quincey most popular?
Quincey peaked in 1976, reaching #1286 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 3,110 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Quincey
Ours, offered as ours. Roman number-names are worth pausing on: Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, Decimus — fifth through tenth, given in order, and the practice was old enough that men bore them without being anywhere near that position in the family. The number had stopped counting. That is what happens to almost every name eventually: the meaning stops working and the name carries on, which is the ordinary condition of naming rather than a decline from it.
Meaning
estate of Quintus, that is, of the fifth
From Latin quintus, fifth, used as a Roman given name for a fifth child; an estate belonging to one became the French place name Cuinchy, and the Norman family took de Quinci from it.
Pronouncing Quincey
KWIN-see
Two syllables, first stressed. Quincey and Quincy are said identically.
Nicknames for Quincey
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 200252 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1286reached in 1976
- Change vs 2023
- +4.5%23 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Quincey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Quincy in English — spelling variant
- Quincy in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia.
Quinceys among us
people named Quincey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Quincey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Durwin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Quincey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Durwin climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Durwin's path sketches the road Quincey is walking now.
Quincey sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Quincey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Quincey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning traceable through four languages and two thousand years.
- Quinn is a complete short form in very current use.
- The initial Q keeps it distinct on any list.
- Quincy is the more common spelling and will be written for him.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- The Massachusetts city is said KWIN-zee locally.
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Masculine · #4396 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Quinceys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Quincey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Quincey in 2025?
- Quincey ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Quincey?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Quincey — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Quincey with classmates?
- Quincey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Quincey
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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