Quince

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Quince is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 153K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 561K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 102K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

593 people, 2010

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Quince is read(measured from records)

Quince is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English84%

    The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish6.7%

    fifteen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Quince 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.

Where Quince is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5931 in 561K608Quince178
GB United Kingdom≈430 est.≈1 in 153K612Quince89
AU Australia≈250 est.≈1 in 102K1Quince59
PH Philippines≈240 est.≈1 in 447K—Quince17
IT Italy≈94 est.≈1 in 661K—Quince3
NZ New Zealand≈13 est.≈1 in 376K—Quince10

593 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Quince is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Also written Quincé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Quincé

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Quincé

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Peggy A. Quince, b. 1948Dolvett Quince, b. 1973Will Quince, b. 1982

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)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Quince
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002612#9,692
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020608#39,103
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010593#37,544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000524#39,499
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Quince mean, and where does it come from?
The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Quince?
In the etymology graph, Cinco, Quincena and Quinceno are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Quince have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 593 people named Quince, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quince.
How common is the name Quince?
In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Quince in 2010, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.

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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, “Quince”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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