Quetzalli
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- keht-SAHL-lee
- US rank, 2025
- #3,211 for girls
Quetzalli is a girls' name, meaning “precious feather”. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th for girls in the US (49 babies).
What does Quetzalli mean?
Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs
“precious feather”
The quetzal bird's long green tail feathers were prized by the Aztecs, and quetzalli came to mean something precious.
Is Quetzalli a girl's or a boy's name?
Quetzalli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 49 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Quetzalli in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,211th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 49 about 1 in 33,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 59% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were named Quetzalli, making it the 3,211th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 50 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Quetzalli than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Quetzalli in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 123 girls in the US were given Quetzalli or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,470, up from #3,211 for this spelling alone.
Quetzalli in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,211 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,459 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,524 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,891 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,800 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,259 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,766 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,515 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,074 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,418 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,349 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,255 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,869 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,709 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,674 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,824 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,204 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,892 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
Names like Quetzalli
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Yaretzi, Lorelai, Jaylani, Emerson, Alani, Yareli, Milani, Nayeli, Kaylani, Amari, Leilani, Emery
Other spellings of Quetzalli
Names related to Quetzalli
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Quetzalli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/quetzalli, updated 20 October 2026.