Quarles

Quarles is the 3,676th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,408 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,408
Rank: 3,676th
How common: 1 in 31,800
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Quarles described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 48.3%
White, not Hispanic 41.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Quarles

Francis Quarles (1592–1644)English poet

People named Quarles with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Quarles

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.