Quentin
A male given name from Latin.
Proper noun
- A male given name from Latin.
- Quentin Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry...
- The question is inescapable following the killing in Lyon of nationalist student Quentin Deranque by suspected far-left militants. - 2026 February 21, Hugh Schofield, “Killing of nationalist student leaves French far...
- A female given name from Latin occasionally used.
- A surname.
Origin
From Old French. The name of a third century French martyr, from Latin Quīntīnus, a derivative of the Roman praenomen Quīntus, from quīntus (“fifth”). It was brought to England by the Normans, but never became particularly popular. Compare Quinton.