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    The surname Quince

    An occupational surname, carried by 593 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex Q520

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Quince is more common than 76.9% of them.

    Origin

    Probably a topographic surname for someone who lived by a quince tree or a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of quinces.

    Quince is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 593 people named Quince in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 520,650 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 524.

    #37,544
    rank among US surnames
    593
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.2%
    change since 2000 (was #39,499)

    Who is named Quince

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

    66% of people named Quince identified as Black (not Hispanic), 27% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 66%
    • White (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Two or more races 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Quince

    Quince has the Soundex code Q520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q520.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Quince come from?
    Probably a topographic surname for someone who lived by a quince tree or a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of quinces.
    How common is the surname Quince?
    593 people in the United States had the surname Quince in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 520,650 Americans. It ranked 37,544th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Quince?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Quince identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 27% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Quince?
    Quince is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Quince getting more or less common?
    More common. 524 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 593 in 2010, up 13%.