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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

'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.

Meaning of QUILL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for QUILL

The following words are slight variants of QUILL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.