Quarles
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'person from Quarles', Norfolk, perhaps referring to prehistoric stone circles
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quarles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 34K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
9,780 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'person from Quarles', Norfolk, perhaps referring to prehistoric stone circles.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quarles counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,780 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Quarles | 61 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Quarles | 15 |
| GA Gabon | — | — | — | Quarles | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Quarles | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Quarles | 4 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | — | — | Quarles | 1 |
9,780 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Quarles is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Warfles; first attested Martin de Warfles 1198
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A hamlet in Holkham parish, North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF883387).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francis Quarlesb. 1592GBEnglish poet
- Tunstall Quarlesb. 1770USAmerican judge and politician
- James Minor Quarlesb. 1823USConfederate Army officer and politician (1823-1901)
- William Andrew Quarlesb. 1825USConfederate Army general (1825-1893)
- Joseph V. Quarlesb. 1843USlawyer, politician, United States federal judge (1843-1911)
- Julian M. Quarlesb. 1848USAmerican politician (1848-1929)
- Donald Aubrey Quarlesb. 1894USAmerican politician (1894-1959)
- Benjamin Arthur Quarlesb. 1904USAmerican historian (1904–1996)
- Randal Quarlesb. 1957USAmerican businessman
- Shelton Quarlesb. 1971USAmerican football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.8K | #3,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.4K | #3,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.3K | #3,523 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Quarles mean, and where does it come from?
- 'person from Quarles', Norfolk, perhaps referring to prehistoric stone circles. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Quarles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Quarles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quarles.
- Where is Quarles most common?
- Quarles is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Quarles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,780 people named Quarles in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quarlesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quarles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.