In 2025, 44 US girls were named Quetzali, making it the 3,508th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #3,497 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 45 girls named Quetzali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,497, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #9,361 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quetzali in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 454 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 180 babies named Quetzali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 219 US girls were named Quetzali; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.