Baby Names Starting With Q, Girls and Boys
Q is one of the rarest starting letters for baby names in English, so this page covers both girls and boys together rather than splitting into two thinner pages.
Q names for girls
- Quinn (Irish, from a surname meaning “descendant of Conn,” now widely used as a girl’s name and as a unisex choice)
- Quincy (English/French, originally a surname and place name, now used as a unisex given name)
- Queenie (English, a diminutive tied directly to the word “queen”)
- Qiana (a modern coined name, originally the brand name of a synthetic fabric introduced in the 1960s before being adopted as a given name)
Q names for boys
- Quinn (also used as a boy’s name, from the same Irish surname meaning “descendant of Conn”)
- Quincy (also used as a boy’s name, from the same English/French surname origin)
- Quentin (Latin, meaning “the fifth”)
- Quade (an Anglicized form of an Irish surname, used as a modern given name)
Quick facts
| Common origins | Irish, Latin, English |
| Common meaning themes | descent/lineage, numerical order, royalty |
| Note | Quinn and Quincy are both genuinely unisex, used for boys and girls with no gendered form |
Frequently asked questions
What is the most popular baby name starting with Q?
Quinn has been the most consistently used Q name for both boys and girls in recent US naming data.
Is Quinn a boy’s name or a girl’s name?
Both. Quinn is genuinely unisex, drawn from an Irish surname, and has no separate male or female form.