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quirk Name Meaning and History

Irish (Munster) and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuirc ‘descendant of Corc’, a personal name from corc ‘heart’, or curc ‘tuft (of hair)’. It is sometimes translated Oates, as if from coirce ‘oats’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of quirk Families in the US in 1920
Number of quirk families
 119-236
 40-118
 1-39
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