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The QUIRKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 453 44654 0 2
United States (1880 census) 18 76370 0 0
Change since 1880 +435 +31716 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 156 9477 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,023 5179 0.002 22
Top States for QUIRKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 81 14516 0.001 7
New York 72 22695 0.000 4
California 58 33257 0.000 2
Massachusetts 41 16350 0.001 6
Florida 35 38281 0.000 2
Top States for QUIRKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 81 14516 0.001 7
Massachusetts 41 16350 0.001 6
Oregon 20 17967 0.001 6
Connecticut 13 31463 0.000 4
New York 72 22695 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of QUIRKE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

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

Meaning of QUIRKE in historical publications

QUIRKE. The O'CuIrces, or Mac Quirkes, were an ancient sept in Munster. D'Altou.

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 QUIRKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as QUIRKE.

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 QUIRKE

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