Quinton
Quinton is a place name, a surname or a masculine given name.
The place name originates from Old English cwen "queen" or cwene "woman" and tun "farmstead, estate".[1][2]
The English surname and given name may originate from the English place name Quinton. The French surname Quinton [kɛ̃tɔ̃] is a common surname[3] and a former given name. It is a variant form of Quenton [kɑ̃tɔ̃], itself from Quentin, Quintin with a usual replacement of the suffix -in (such as in the surnames Quintard, Quintier) by -on, suffix commonly used in the French given names (e. g. Marion, Yvon) and surnames (e.g. Creton, Crinon, Bricon, etc.)[4]
Given name
Sports
- Quinton Andrews, American football player
- Quinton Bell, American football player
- Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
- Quinton Boatswain, Montserratian cricketer
- Quinton Ferrell, American basketball coach
- Quinton Flowers, American football player
- Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
- Quinton Hughes, American ice hockey player
- Quinton Knight, American football player
- Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, an American Mixed Martial Artist
- Quinton Patton, American football player
Others
- Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
Surname
- A. R. Quinton, an English watercolour artist
- René Quinton, a French naturalist
- Sophie Quinton, a French actress
- Anthony Quinton, a philosopher
- Harold Quinton (c. 1899–1969), American business executive
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References
- Chinn, Carl. "Our Patron". Quinton Local History Society. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
- "Quinton Family History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
- repartition of the birth with the surname "Quinton" in France, before WWI
- Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 502b and 503a.
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