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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Latin: Fifth-born child
  2. African American: Fifth child

First name variations: Quinton, Quenten, Quenton, Quintin, Quent, Quinto, Quintilian, Quintus, Quentin, Quintavius

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Catalan: from a personal name Quint (Latin Quintus) denoting the fifth-born child in a family.
  2. French: from Middle French quint ‘fifth’, a term used in western France to denote an administrative area consisting of five villages, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for the administrator of such an area.
  3. German: from the medieval personal name and saint’s name Quintinus. Compare Quintin.