Given name & surname · also Hokkien
Que
Que is a surname from Hokkien, ultimately from Catalan. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Que comes from Hokkien, and ultimately from Catalan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Que through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 125
- 125 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,678 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,678 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,215 as a first name in 2020; 953 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Que’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Que as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with GUO. In Filipino usage, Que as a surname has a related form in CUE. In Filipino usage, Que as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with KWOK.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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