The surname Quail
A Scottish Gaelic nickname surname, carried by 1,218 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex Q400
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
From a Manx form of McPhail. Also an English nickname from the quail bird.
Quail is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,218 people named Quail in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,486 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,188.
Who is named Quail
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Quail identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Quail has the Soundex code Q400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q400.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Quail come from?
- From a Manx form of McPhail. Also an English nickname from the quail bird.
- How common is the surname Quail?
- 1,218 people in the United States had the surname Quail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,486 Americans. It ranked 21,459th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Quail?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Quail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Quail?
- Quail is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Quail getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,188 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,218 in 2010, up 2.5%.