The quinton Surname
quinton Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from any of the places, for example in Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, and Birmingham, named in Old English as cwen tun, from Old English as ‘the queen’s settlement’. Compare Kingston.
- from the Old French personal name Quentin, Quintin (see Quintin).
- (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the places in northern France named for St. Quentin of Amiens, a 3rd- century Roman missionary to Gaul, for example Saint-Quentin in La Manche or Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont in Somme, the site of his martyrdom.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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