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

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 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.

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.