Quentin

Old French. Name of a third century French martyr, from Latin Quintīnus, derivative of the Roman praenomen Quintus, from quintus (“fifth”). It was brought to England by Normans, but never became particularly popular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɛntɪn/

Quentin

1. A male given name.
   • 2003 Maeve Binchy, Quentins, Orion, →ISBN, page 79:

     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 had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in.

2. A female given name occasionally used.

• (diminutives) Quint
• Quintin

• quinnet

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.tɛ̃/

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Quentin

1. A male given name of Latin origin; recently popular.

• niquent