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The first name 
Quincy

Quincy is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.

Quincy is a common name for boys!

The name Quincy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Quincy ranks 578. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Quincy. In the entire USA, approximately 24,205 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Quincy. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Quincy

What does the name 
Quincy mean?

Quincy comes from an English surname that was derived from the personal name Quintus. This is an ancient Roman first name meaning ‘the fifth’. It was traditionally given to the fifth child in a family or a child born in the fifth month of the year.

Quincy is an ... old name in the US and had its most popular phase in the 1970s.

Quincy has 6 letters 
and begins with a Q

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The Q is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a Q. Only the letters X and U are even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common initial letters for boys’ names are J and A.

With six letters, the name Quincy is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that as 0.8% of all boys' names start with a Q, all other letters occur on average more than five times as often as the Q. Of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a Q, most are also not very common - the most popular currently is the one of Mr. Tarantino.

Other names with 
Q, u, i, n, c and y

If you take all the letters in the name Quincy – Q, u, i, n, c and y – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Qunicy.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Quincy

If your name is Quincy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Quincy

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Quincy, you can simply say:

Queen

Unicorn

Igloo

Nut

Cat

Yoyo

This is how the name Quincy is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Quincy in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Quincy

Quincy

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Quincy

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Quincy is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Q
U
I
N
C
Y

Have you ever waved the name Quincy

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Q
U
I
N
C
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Quincy sounds like this: