Quan family name history and map
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Quan in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 54 people named Quan in Ireland; roughly one in every 81,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 27 men and 27 women.
Counties with Quan in Ireland
Tipperary was Quan country: 25.9% of them (14 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Cork (12), Limerick (9), Kilkenny (6) and Waterford (5).
Quan average age in 1911
The average Quan in 1911 was 27.0 years old, 27.9 for men and 26.0 for women; a touch younger than the national averages of 29.6 for men and 30.5 for women. That low figure reflects just how many children there were in Edwardian Ireland, along with high infant mortality and the limits of public health at the time. For comparison, average life expectancy in Ireland today is around 83.
Quan literacy in 1911
Of the Quans whose literacy was recorded, 63% could both read and write, 5.6% could read but not write, and 31.5% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 66.7% reading and writing against 59.3% of men. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.
Quan common first names
The most common male names were William (4), James, John, Michael and Patrick. For women it was Mary (7), followed by Annie, Margaret, Elizabeth and Ellen.
Quan occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Quan's census form was "Scholar"; 24.1% (13) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were carpenter / joiner (9.3%), farm labourer (9.3%), no occupation / dependent (3.7%) and carter / driver / groom (1.9%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 13% of all Quans, followed by building & construction, domestic service and no occupation / dependent.
What religion is Quan?
Quans were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 92.6% of them. The remainder were mostly Presbyterian (5.6%) and Methodist (1.9%).
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Quan statistics (1911)
Number: 54
Rank: 5,519
Average Age: 27
Quan in the USA (2020)
Number: 6,825
Rank: 4,983
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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