Qays
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAYS
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
Qays is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).
What does Qays mean?
Arabic: pre-Islamic Arabic name
Qays ibn al-Mulawwah is the lovesick poet of the Arabic legend of Layla and Majnun.
Is Qays a girl's or a boy's name?
Qays is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Qays in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,301among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Qays, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2001, with 8 boys.
Half of all the boys named Qays in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 55 boys in the UK were given Qays or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #646, up from #4,301 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Qays in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 5 | #3,596 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 4 | #3,836 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,013 |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 3 | #3,792 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | 8 | #1,690 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,237 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,184 |
| 1998 | 4 | #2,531 |
Names like Qays
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza Saif Hassan Fahad Faiz Habib Hammad Qasim Azeem Hud Zahir Umair
Other spellings of Qays
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Qays: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/qays, updated 20 October 2026.