girls:
21 births since 2017
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
345 births since 2013
#4241 (7th percentile)
overall:
366 births since 2013
#7373 (5th percentile)
The name Quill is the #7,373 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 366 recorded births since 2013. This represents the 4.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,241 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 2013. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 2017.
Quill first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2013 (2013 for boys and 2017 for girls).
The name Quill has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 86.8% of babies named Quill were boys.
For boys, Quill reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #859) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Quill ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 55.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Quill reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #944) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Quill ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 87.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Quill".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Quill is pronounced as kwihl, which has 1 syllables.
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