Quirk

5,805 people in the United States were counted with the surname Quirk in the 2020 census, making it the 5,751st most common in the country. That is about one person in 51,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,805
Rank: 5,751st
How common: 1 in 51,500
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Irish and gv surname, Anglicized from Ó Cuirc (“descendant of Corc”), a personal name derived from curc (“tuft of hair”). It was sometimes Anglicized as Oates due to an erroneous association with coirce (“oats”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Quirk

Alicia Quirk (born 1992)Australian rugby union player

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

Surnames like Quirk

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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.