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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan (Qué) : variant of Quer, a topographic name from quer ‘rock’, ‘cliff’.
  • Chinese : from part of the name of a city named Quetang, in present-day Shandong province. Quetang is famous as the birthplace of the philosopher Confucius.

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