Quince
Quince was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,485 among boys’ names; 588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quince by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Quince?
#9,485 among boys’ names, 2025
Quince rose from #13,559 in 2015 to #9,485 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.7 per million.
14 babies in 1964, the peak
Quince peaked in 1964, when 14 boys were given it, #2,287 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,485 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,173 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,842 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,334 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,653 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,635 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,704 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,559 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,422 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,832 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #9,460 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,654 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,106 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,525 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,515 | 5.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,036 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,989 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,897 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,685 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,229 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,419 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,667 | 4.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,081 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,860 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,906 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,030 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,741 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,542 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,551 | 7.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,035 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,347 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,807 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,917 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,478 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,931 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,088 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,391 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,330 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,778 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,861 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,280 | 8.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,582 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,287 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,504 | 5.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,514 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,463 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,517 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,838 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,606 | 5.1 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,425 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,116 | 3.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,631 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,600 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,232 | 3.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,143 | 2.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,670 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,891 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,414 | 4.9 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,898 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,949 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,567 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,042 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,296 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,430 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,186 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,803 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,097 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,316 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,660 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,440 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,397 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,572 | 11.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,049 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,476 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,367 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,271 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,181 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,730 | 11.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,217 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,067 | 52.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,361 | 39.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,077 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,089 | 43.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Quince a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Quince has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Quince: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quince, and how old are they?
An estimated 367 Americans named Quince and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 21 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 445 people named Quince (51 women and girls, 394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 363 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 36,645 babies since 1880, Quince is the third most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 826 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Quince and names like it
- Compare Quince and QuincyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sQuince peaked in 1964.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Quince.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Quince alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with QMost given first.