Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Quincy was most popular in 2025, when 757 American babies were given the name — ranking #850 that year. In 2025 it ranked #850, with 757 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 33,207 people named Quincy.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Quincy is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 143 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 33,207 American births named Quincy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 30,077 are estimated to be alive today.
757 American babies were named Quincy in 2025, ranking #850 that year.
Quincy is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 674 births a year, against 555 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +21% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Quincy is mostly a boy’s name — 16.4% of the 33,207 Americans given it were girls and 83.6% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 34% girls and 66% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 30,077 Americans named Quincy are alive today — 91% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 25 years old, and half are between 12 and 42. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org