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First name origin & meaning:

Irish: Cub

First name variations: Quillen, Quillon, Quillan

Last name origin & meaning:

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.