Quillen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkwɪɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quillen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Lanarks; Durham. see Quillan .
- USUnited States1 in 56K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 19M
- BRBrazil≈1 in 105M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
5,989 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Quillén in AR Argentina.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Lanarks; Durham. see Quillan .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quillen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
5,989 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present). 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)
- Jimmy Quillenb. 1916USAmerican politician (1916-2003)
- Daniel Quillenb. 1940USAmerican mathematician (1940–2011)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,783 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,656 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,267 |
| 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 Quillen mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Lanarks; Durham. see Quillan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Quillen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkwɪɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Quillen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Quillen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quillen.
- Where is Quillen most common?
- Quillen is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Quillen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,989 people named Quillen in 2010, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quillenThe 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, “Quillen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.