Que is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Koe, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Que: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,440 in 1921.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,440 in 1921; #11,678 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Que in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,678 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1921, at #3,440.
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Que: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,440 in 1921 · most boys in one year: 11 (2022).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Que, making it the 11,678th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,013 places from #10,665 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 7 boys named Que in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,440, reached in 1921. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 2022. For comparison, it was #10,361 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Que in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 125 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 47 babies named Que.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 59 US boys were named Que; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Koe (565 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 Que in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).