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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic from the Middle English female personal name Quenilda, Old English Cwēnhild ‘woman-war’.
  • In some instances, it may be an altered spelling of the French family name Quinel, which is from an aphetic pet form of the personal name Jacques, French form of Jack.

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