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.