Quetzal — unisex name

What the Data Says About Quetzal

The Social Security Administration has registered 89 babies named Quetzal between 2004 and 2022, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Quetzal currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Quetzal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 69 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Quetzal performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 44 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Quetzal shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Quetzal in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Quetzal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 89 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.