Quincy

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the English surname, in origin a Norman baronial name borne by a family that held lands at Cuinchy in Pas-de-Calais, Normandy

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

Quincy is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • MAMorocco
  • ILIsrael

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
420 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

QuincyLatin(measured from records)
קוויסיHebrew(measured from records)

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)

Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the English surname, in origin a Norman baronial name borne by a family that held lands at Cuinchy in Pas-de-Calais, Normandy. The place name is derived from the Gallo-Roman personal name Quintus. This was the surname of a prominent New England family in the

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Quincy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Quincy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—19KQuincy420
MA Morocco——Quincy5
IL Israel——Quincy6
CA Canada—5Quincy117
GB United Kingdom—741Quincy102
NL Netherlands—1.9K—79

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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

Quincy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Mexico, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Qüincy

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Quincey, Куинси

53 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Quincy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname from Old French.

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

  • In English, city, FL, IL; town, WA; villag

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000John Quincy Adams, b. 1767Quincy Jones, b. 1933Quincy Jones III, b. 1968Quincy Watts, b. 1970Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, b. 1986Schoolboy Q, b. 1986Quincy Acy, b. 1990Quincy Promes, b. 1992Quincy Miller, b. 1992Quincy Hall, b. 1998

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 55 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Quincy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202019K#1,488
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.5K#1,488
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.9K#716
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.5K#1,655
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—935#1,344
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—803#2,390
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025422—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025335—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202421—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202414—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20245#789
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20243#1,147

Reference works 4

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Quincy mean, and where does it come from?
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the English surname, in origin a Norman baronial name borne by a family that held lands at Cuinchy in Pas-de-Calais, Normandy. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
In which country does Quincy have the most bearers?
Quincy is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled quincy.

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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, “Quincy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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