Quill
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 20 babies a year in the US.
Quill by the numbers
Quill was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 23 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Quill
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Quill. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Quinndescendant of Conn; wise and intelligent4,467 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Quill
Names that are said the same way as Quill, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Quill
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