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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Fifth

How Popular Is The Name Quintana

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Catalan, Asturian-Leonese, and Galician : habitational name from any of the numerous places, large and small, named Quintana, from quintana ‘country house’ (originally having a tax liability of one fifth of the annual produce).
  • variant of French Quintaine, from an Old French term denoting a post for jousting practice, hence a nickname for one who was skilled at this.

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