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Quill: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,226 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,226 in 2019; #3,361 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Quill in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,361 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,226.
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Quill: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,226 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 63 (2019).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Quill, making it the 3,361st most common boys’ name of the year, down 275 places from #3,086 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 40 boys named Quill in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,226, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 63. For comparison, it was #4,668 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quill in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2013 with 6 babies. In all, 441 US babies have been given the name, 4.8% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 257 babies named Quill.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 388 US boys were named Quill; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).