Quill
#3,360 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Quill has been given to 441 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #3,360 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 63 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Quill, 2025
1 in 94,700
Quill over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Quill over time
In 2025, Quill went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Quill?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 48,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,360
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Quill sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quill. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Quills were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Quill was born before 2020 — so the typical Quill is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 58.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 420
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (247).
Is Quill rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −275
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −484
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,306
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 2019 (63)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 60.6% average annual change
Spellings of Quill
Quill is not the most common spelling — Bill is, with 63.6% against Quill's 0.17%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Quill is used
Across 1910–2025, Quill was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 969,619 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Missouri1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Utah1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Quill has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Quill around the world
Where Quill ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2018–2024#3,689in 2024
- Canada2016–2024#2,550in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Quill by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Quill
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Quill
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.