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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese : habitational name from any of the numerous places named Quintal, or a topographic name from quintal ‘small country house’, ‘vegetable garden’. This name is now common in Mexico.
  • Southern French : from Old French quintal ‘hundredweight’, possibly applied as a nickname for a heavy man.
  • A Quintal from La Rochelle, France, is recorded in Boucherville, Quebec, in 1668.

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