The QUILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,404	18246	0.001	5
United States (1880 census)	685	7499	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+719	-10747	0	-9
Other Countries
Australia	312	5022	0.002	19
United Kingdom	266	13763	0.001	6

Top States for QUILL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	275	3346	0.004	43
New York	199	10244	0.001	10
Pennsylvania	93	16430	0.001	8
California	80	29602	0.000	2
Florida	79	22171	0.000	5
Top States for QUILL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	55	2683	0.007	70
Massachusetts	275	3346	0.004	43
Maine	31	5660	0.002	24
New Hampshire	16	10268	0.001	13
Maryland	58	10165	0.001	11

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called QUILL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called QUILL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called QUILL in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a QUILL by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of QUILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the QUILL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the QUILL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of QUILL in the USA

Sorry, we don't have any ethnic distribution data for QUILL.

Similar names to QUILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as QUILL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.