Entry № 8392 · French origin

Quincy Quincy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Fifth (Quincy Jones; John Quincy Adams)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "fifth (quincy jones; john quincy adams)".

Quincy is from the Old French — from the Latin quintus (fifth) — referring to the fifth-born child or a place name in France. Quincy Adams — Adams Family musical reference. Quincy M.E. Quincy Promes — Dutch footballer.

Fifth (Quincy Jones; John Quincy Adams) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Quincy
Transliteration
Quincy
Pronunciation
/ ˈkwɪn.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Quincy stands.

Quincy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Quincys before her.

Real people
Quincy Jones
American 28x Grammy producer.
1933 – 2024
In fiction
Quincy M.E.
NBC's iconic 1976-1983 series.
1976

Names connected to Quincy.

The number behind Quincy.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Quincy reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.