Given name & surname
Quigley
“one with messy or unruly hair”
Quigley is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “one with messy or unruly hair.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “one with messy or unruly hair.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Quigley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,418 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,418 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 16,435 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Quigley’s family of names
Quigley has a related form in Quiglea. Quigley has a related form in Quiglee. Quigley has a related form in Quigleigh.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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