Quế
given name · Latin script
Meaning: cinnamon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Quế is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 232K
- USUnited States1 in 274K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
1,215 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Que in US United States, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)cinnamon
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Quế counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,215 | 1 in 274K | 953 | Que | 59 |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | 12 | 1 in 464K | 50 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 6 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 60 | Que | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
1,215 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gui Wencanb. 1823not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 85991
- Kwei Chung-gib. 1901TWnot in their usual nameRepublic of China politician
- Kye Ung-thaeb. 1925KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean politician
- Gui Yufangb. 1930CNnot in their usual nameChinese translator
- Kuei Chih-hungb. 1937CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director
- Gui Minhaib. 1964CNnot in their usual nameChinese-born Swedish scholar and book publisher
- Kwai Lun-meib. 1983TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Gui Haichaob. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese scholar and taikonaut (1986-)
- Gui Wenbob. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Gui Hongb. 1995CNnot in their usual nameChinese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Quế mean, and where does it come from?
- cinnamon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Quế a male or female name?
- Quế is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Quế have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Quế, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled que.
- Where is Quế most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quế is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Quế?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,215 people named Quế in 2020, about 1 in 274 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Quế?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qu%E1%BA%BFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quế”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.