Boy name origins & meanings
- Latin : Fifth-born child
- African American : Fifth child
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- Catalan : from a personal name Quint (Latin Quintus) denoting the fifth-born child in a family.
- French : from Middle French quint ‘fifth’, a term used in western France to denote an administrative area consisting of five villages, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for the administrator of such an area.
- German : from the medieval personal name and saint’s name Quintinus. Compare Quintin.
