Count: 0 — No entries meet the strict search term “Literary girl names that start with Q.” The list yields nothing because the requirement is narrow: names must originate in literature (characters, author-coined names, or poetry/myth used as literary names) and start with the letter Q. Note that Q is one of the rarest initial letters for feminine given names in English and many European naming traditions, so finding author-originated feminine names that begin with Q is extremely unlikely.

Accept that linguistic and historical patterns explain the absence. The consonant Q appears rarely at the start of female names in Indo-European naming pools; many traditional sources for female names (biblical, saints, classical Latin and Greek) do not produce Q-initial names. Authors who coin names rarely choose Q as an initial because it reads as exotic or awkward in English, and many Q-starting forms instead come from surnames, nicknames, myth, or transliteration from other writing systems — not from an author inventing a feminine given name in a literary work. Consult authoritative name references such as Behind the Name or the Oxford Dictionary of First Names for frequency and etymology data; they confirm Q-initial feminine names are scarce and often not literary in origin.

Consider these close matches and related options instead. Queenie (KWEEN-ee) appears as a literary character in novels like Zadie Smith’s White Teeth but is a nickname rather than a name coined by the author. Quinn (KWIN) is an Irish surname (Ó Cuinn) that becomes a modern given name and appears in fiction, but it does not originate inside a literary work. Quilla (KEE-yah) links to the Incan moon goddess Mama Quilla and appears in poetry and fiction as a myth-derived name rather than an original coinage. Many other Q-starting feminine forms come from transliteration (Qing, Qiao) or from film and media coinages (e.g., Quorra) rather than from literature proper. If you want usable Q names with literary flavor, broaden the criteria to names that appear in literature, myth, or transliterated languages, or look at similarly rare initials (X, Z) where author-coined feminine names are more common.