Quant Family History
Quant Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English cointe queynte quante ‘wise skilled clever’ also ‘cunning crafty’ (Old French cointe quoint cuinte). In Devon the name may alternatively be a variant of Quance with loss of final -s. Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch quant ‘companion prankster’. German: variant of Quandt a cognate of 2 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022