The quill Surname
quill Name Meaning and History
Irish, Scottish, and Manx: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’, or of Mac Cuill
‘son of Coll’, a personal name probably based on coll
‘hazel tree’. In Ireland this is the name of a Munster family and is
sometimes translated as Woods.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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