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Surnames QQuaite, Quate, Quade, McQuade, MacQuaid, McQuoide,Scottish/Irish Patronymic Name...The Gaelic given name Wat (pronounced wait, and the same as Walter). The name Walter was brought by the Normans and derived from Wald , meaning rule, and
theri , meaning army. Mac Uaid was the son of Wat (Walter). The Anglicised version took many forms, some of which dropped the Mac, and many of which arranged the vowels in combination.
Quigg, Quigley, Quigley, Quick, Quickley,English Nickname for an agile person, from Middle English quik or Old English cwic meaning lively. The surname is also sometimes derived from the place where cinch grass grew – it was a quick-growing grass. Quick and its variations were also derived occasionally from Old English cu meaning cow + wic meaning outlying settlement, for the man at the dairy farm.
Quinton,English Place Name...Quinton was the name given to several locations in Gloucester, Northants, and Birmingham that derived from Old English cwen meaning queen + tun meaning enclosure, settlement. The name is patronymic when derived from the Old French given name Quentin (Quintin) from Latin Quninus and Quintus meaning fifth(born). The name was introduced by the Normans but never really caught on. Finally, Quinton sometimes derived from a Norman location named for St. Quentin of Amiens, a third Century Roman missionary.
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