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The QUINN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 74,531 386 0.028 276
United States (1880 census) 23,628 218 0.047 473
Change since 1880 +50903 -168 -0.019 -197
Other Countries
Australia 6,638 191 0.041 406
United Kingdom 26,418 197 0.058 575
Top States for QUINN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 6,799 174 0.036 358
California 5,534 536 0.016 163
Pennsylvania 5,103 180 0.042 416
Florida 4,447 379 0.028 278
Massachusetts 4,125 122 0.065 650
Top States for QUINN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 4,125 122 0.065 650
Rhode Island 649 116 0.062 619
New Hampshire 699 180 0.057 566
Delaware 436 230 0.056 556
Connecticut 1,569 147 0.046 461

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

Classification and Origin of QUINN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the QUINN 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 QUINN 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 QUINN in the USA

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

Meaning of QUINN in historical publications

QUINN. See Quin and O'Quinn.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to QUINN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as QUINN.

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 QUINN

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