Quetzaly
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- keht-SAHL-lee
- US rank, 2025
- #4,545 for girls
Quetzaly is a girls' name, meaning “precious feather”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).
What does Quetzaly mean?
Spelling of Quetzalli; 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.
Meaning borrowed from Quetzalli.
Is Quetzaly a girl's or a boy's name?
Quetzaly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Quetzaly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 54,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 82% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Quetzaly, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 72 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Quetzaly in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 123 girls in the US were given Quetzaly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,470, up from #4,545 for this spelling alone.
Quetzaly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,119 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,466 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,715 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,259 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,849 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,454 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,145 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,414 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Quetzaly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Everly, Emery, Emberly, Bellamy, Ailany, Legacy, Avery, Royalty, Murphy, Klarity, Waverly, Blakely
Other spellings of Quetzaly
Names related to Quetzaly
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, “Quetzaly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/quetzaly, updated 20 October 2026.