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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Fifth-born child
  • African American : Fifth child

How Popular Is The Name Quint

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : from a personal name Quint (Latin Quintus) denoting the fifth-born child in a family.
  • 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.
  • German : from the medieval personal name and saint’s name Quintinus. Compare Quintin.

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