How common is the surname Quarles?

9,780 people in the United States had the surname Quarles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,569 Americans. It ranked 3,631st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Quarles getting more or less common?

More common. 9,264 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,780 in 2010, up 5.6%.

The surname Quarles

An English place surname, carried by 9,780 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex Q642

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Quarles is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English *hwerflas, nominative/accusative plural form of hwerfel (“circle”), perhaps referred to an ancient circle of stones.

Quarles is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,780 people named Quarles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,569 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,264.

#3,631

rank among US surnames

9,780

people in 2010

3.3

per 100,000 Americans

+5.6%

change since 2000 (was #3,523)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,622	Taggart	9,808	31,479
#3,623	Renfro	9,806	31,485
#3,624	Schindler	9,801	31,501
#3,625	Huey	9,800	31,505
#3,626	Clemente	9,797	31,514
#3,627	Lomax	9,789	31,540
#3,628	Reddick	9,785	31,553

Who is named Quarles

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

51% of people named Quarles identified as Black (not Hispanic), 43% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 51%
White (not Hispanic) 43%
Two or more races 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Qualls

Quarles has the Soundex code Q642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q642.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Quarles come from?: From Old English *hwerflas, nominative/accusative plural form of hwerfel (“circle”), perhaps referred to an ancient circle of stones.
How common is the surname Quarles?: 9,780 people in the United States had the surname Quarles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,569 Americans. It ranked 3,631st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Quarles?: In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Quarles identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 43% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Quarles?: Quarles is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Quarles getting more or less common?: More common. 9,264 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,780 in 2010, up 5.6%.
What are other spellings of Quarles?: Qualls.