First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Fifth-born child
- Spanish: Home ruler
- Spanish: Friend, short for Enrique
First name variations: Quinton, Quenten, Quenton, Quintin, Quent, Quint, Quintilian, Quintus, Quentin, Quiqui, Kaka, Keke, Quiquin, Quiqui Last name origins & meanings:
- Aragonese, Spanish, and Catalan: habitational name from a place
called Quinto, for example in Zaragoza province. However, the high
concentration of the surname in Alacant province suggests that in some
cases at least it may derive from the personal name Quinto
(from Latin Quintus denoting the fifth-born child) or Catalan
quinto ‘young soldier’.
- Italian: from the personal name
Quinto (see 1 above).
- Italian: possibly a habitational name
from any of the numerous places named with this word, as for example
Quinto di Treviso (Treviso), Quinto Vicentino (Vicenza), Quinto
Vercellese (Vercelli).
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