American Family Name Origins:
Quarles
Frequency: (2907)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from a place in Norfolk, recorded in Domesday Book as Huerueles, named in Old English as hwerflas ‘circles’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
