Quill
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KWIL
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #3,313 for boys
Quill is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “feather pen”. In 2025 it ranked 3,313th for boys in the US (35 babies).
What does Quill mean?
English: English word; also an Irish surname
“feather pen”
Peter Quill is the hero known as Star-Lord in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Is Quill a girl's or a boy's name?
Quill is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Quill in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 6 boys.
Quill in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #3,502 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,162 |
How popular is Quill in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,313among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 35about 1 in 49,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 35 boys in the US were named Quill, making it the 3,313th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,845th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 63 boys. It first appears in the records in 2013.
Half of all the boys named Quill in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Quill in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,313 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,044 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,472 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,751 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,587 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,845 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,212 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,942 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,326 |
| 2015 | 21 | #4,543 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
Names like Quill
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finn Ronan Cove Kayden Cassian Brody Lochlan Reign Rowan Callan Conan Finley
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Quill: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/quill, updated 20 October 2026.