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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Fourth

First name variations: Quaid, Quaide

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: nickname for an evil man, from Middle Low German quāt ‘evil’, ‘malicious’, ‘false’, or a topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German quāt ‘dirt’, ‘refuse’.
  2. Irish: reduced and altered form of McQuaid.