The QUAIFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	193	89172	0	1
United States (1880 census)	39	55784	0	1
Change since 1880	+154	-33388	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	144	10245	0.001	9
United Kingdom	186	17156	0	4

Top States for QUAIFE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington	28	24724	0.000	5
Minnesota	21	34185	0.000	4
California	17	110366	0.000	1
Arizona	14	36246	0.000	3
Colorado	13	38453	0.000	3
Top States for QUAIFE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington	28	24724	0.000	5
North Dakota	3	21261	0.000	5
Minnesota	21	34185	0.000	4
Colorado	13	38453	0.000	3
Kansas	8	29767	0.000	3

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of QUAIFE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

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

Meaning of QUAIFE in historical publications

QUAIFE. The family seem always to have been principally resident in EastSussex, and West Kent. Until within the last 150 years, the name has been spelt Coyf, and Coyfe, and tradition says, that the ancestor of the family came into England witli the Conqueror, and that, at the Battle of Hastings, he wore a hood instead of a helmet ; loide nomen. It is worthy of notice, that the name Caperoun, the Old French for a hood, is found in the Roll of Battel Abbey, and also that the family have long resided near Battel, the scene of the exploits of the presumed founder of the name.

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 QUAIFE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as QUAIFE.

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.