Irish Boy Names Starting with Q

Quinlan is an Irish surname now also used as a first name. It is an English form of Ó Caoindealbháin, “descendant of Caoindealbhán,” a name made from caoin, “gentle, refined,” and delb, “form, shape,” which the scholar Patrick Woulfe glossed as “gracefully shaped.”

Rare in Ireland: fewer than three baby boys a year get the name.

Quinn means “intelligent.”

No. 676 for boys in Ireland in 2025, with 4 baby boys.