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Quincey vs Quincy

American parents have registered 33,207 Quincys since 1880, against 2,713 Quinceys. Quincy is still ahead, with 757 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Quincey against Quincy, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Quincey Quincy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Quincy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1913, when Quincey had 5 and Quincy had 30.

Side by side

  Quincey Quincy
Total US births 2,71333,207
Most in one year 71757
Babies in 2025 61757
Estimated living today 2,60030,000
Median age today 2324
Peak year 20021977
Best rank 2,068th boys273rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,396th652nd
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 786 / 1,9275,434 / 27,773

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Quincey Quincy
England and Wales 20400

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Quincey and Quincy.