Qais is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Caius, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Qais: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,922 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Qais in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,922 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Qais: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,922 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 43 (2025).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Qais, making it the 2,922nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 339 places from #3,261 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 37 boys named Qais in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,922, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #4,515 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Qais in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 5 babies. In all, 467 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 216 babies named Qais.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 292 US boys were named Qais; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Qais ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,440 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Caius (2,329 babies since 1880) and Kaius (2,011 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Qais in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,440 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,706 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,160 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,922 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,261 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,780 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,674 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,098 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,242 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,872 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,681 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #5,068 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,283 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,515 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,215 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,150 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,816 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,612 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,966 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,349 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,744 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,617 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,520 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,868 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,991 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,534 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,026 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,175 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).