First name origins & meanings:
- Spanish: Fifteenth child
- English: Fifth son's estate
- American: Popular, fifth child
- French: Estate belonging to the fifth son
First name variations: Quin, Quince, Quinceanos, Quinci, Cylia, Quince, Quincylia, Quince, Quincey, Quin Last name origins & meanings:
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several
places in France deriving their names from the Gallo-Roman personal
name Quintus, meaning ‘fifth(-born)’ + the locative suffix
-acum. The earliest bearers of the name in England were from
Cuinchy in Pas-de-Calais, but other stocks may be from
Quincy-sous-Sénard in Seine-et-Oise or Quincy-Voisins in
Seine-et-Marne.
- The American Quincy family were established in MA by Edmund Quincy
in 1633. Fifth in descent was Josiah Quincy (1744–75), a leading
patriot, who was sent to England to argue the colonists’ case in
1774. His son Josiah (1772–1864) was a powerful opponent of slavery,
president of Harvard, and mayor of Boston, a post also held by several
of his descendants. The traditional pronunciation is “Quinzy”.
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