Quillan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Irish Gaelic; Gaelic form of William, strong resolute protector
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Quillan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic; Gaelic form of William, strong resolute protector.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quillan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 304 | — | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 96 | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 29 | — | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eddie Quillanb. 1907USAmerican actor (1907–1990)
- Fred Quillanb. 1956USAmerican football player (1956-2016)
- Gary Quillanb. 1970GBchess player
- Quillan Robertsb. 1994CAGuyanese association football player
- Quillan Isidoreb. 1996GBBritish BMX rider
- Quillan Salkilldb. 1999AUAustralian mixed martial artist
- Jacob Quillanb. 2002CACanadian ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 296 | #63,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 285 | #73,330 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 261 | #74,141 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 96 | #33,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Quillan mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic; Gaelic form of William, strong resolute protector. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Quillan have the most bearers?
- Quillan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quillanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quillan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.