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The QUAIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,188 20693 0 4
United States (1880 census) 467 10206 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +721 -10487 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 111 13034 0.001 7
United Kingdom 644 7376 0.001 14
Top States for QUAIL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 174 10750 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 106 13496 0.001 9
Florida 89 18468 0.001 6
Michigan 79 15522 0.001 8
Iowa 71 6204 0.002 24
Top States for QUAIL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 43 2798 0.006 57
Delaware 44 3055 0.006 56
Iowa 71 6204 0.002 24
New York 174 10750 0.001 9
New Hampshire 11 13265 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called QUAIL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called QUAIL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called QUAIL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a QUAIL by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of QUAIL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the QUAIL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the QUAIL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of QUAIL in the USA

Sorry, we don't have any ethnic distribution data for QUAIL.

Meaning of QUAIL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of QUAIL.

Similar names to QUAIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as QUAIL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for QUAIL

The following words are slight variants of QUAIL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.