Quaranta

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

The meaning is "forty". It comes from a nickname.

Quattrocchi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

This surname came from Sciacca in Sicily and is formed from quattro meaning "four" and occhi meaning "eyes". The original Quattrocchi family were judges and barons. It is a relatively rare Italian surname, usually found in Sicily.

Queen

Usage: English, Irish Extra: Statistics

Means "woman" from the Old English cwen which was sometimes used as a personal name. In some occurances the meaning could simply have been "queen" derived from the Old English cwene. Occasionally it could be a shortened form of MacQueen.

Queshire

Usage: English

Probably an unusual variant of Cheshire.

Quick

Usage: English, Irish, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Quigley.

Quickley

Usage: English, Irish, Scottish

Variant of Quigley.

Quigg

Usage: English, Irish, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Quigley.

Quigley

Usage: English, Irish, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from Middle English quik or Old English cwic, which both mean "lively". It's an English nickname for an agile person. This is also sometimes a place name derived from the place where cinch grass grew: it was a quick-growing grass.

Quincey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Quincy.

Quincy

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the first name Quintus.

Quinlan

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Irish surname Ó Caoindealbháin, which means "descendent of Caoinlean". The name Caoinlean means "slender woman," from the Gaelic caol, "slim" and bhean, "woman".

Quinn

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Irish surname Ó Cuinn, which means "descendent of Cuinn". The name Cuinn is a variant of Conn.

Quinones

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

From various Spanish place names derived from quinon meaning "five". It indicated that the land was divided amongst five people.

Quintana

Usage: Spanish, Catalan Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller on a piece of land whose rent is one-fifth it's produce" from the Spanish and Catalan quintana.

Quirk

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Quirke.

Quirke

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From chroi, a Gaelic word meaning "heart".

Quirós

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Denotes a person from one of the various places of this name in Spain. Quirós, the place name, may derive from the Galician queiroa meaning "heather".