Surnames starting with Q

A Chinese surname, most often romanized from the character 邱/丘, meaning a hill or mound.

A Vietnamese surname, usually understood as a modern romanization of a Chinese-derived family name used in southern Vietnam.

A Dutch-American surname whose first element likely means “oak,” though the full name’s original sense is not securely established.

An Irish surname often treated as a variant of Quaid/Quoid, ultimately linked to the Gaelic Mac Uid(h)in or a similar form.

A surname most likely descended from a medieval nickname or regional spelling related to an older English or Germanic personal name.

An Irish surname usually understood as a shortened Anglicized form of an old Gaelic name, though the exact original form is not fully certain.

An English surname that most likely began as a place name, probably linked to quarryland or a Norfolk locality.

Usually a nickname or an anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Queen, the surname can also reflect a place-name connected with a royal stronghold.

A Spanish surname originally tied to the place name Quesada, with older spellings like Quexada and Quixada.

An American surname that is most likely a spelling variant of a southern English or Scots-Irish name, probably built from an older place-name or personal-name form.

A Spanish surname most likely tied to a place name called Quevedo, rather than to the word itself in modern use.

A Spanish surname from a place name, ultimately linked to a thorny or brushy hillside or settlement.

A nickname surname meaning lively, active, or nimble.

An Irish surname, usually from Ó Coigligh / Ó Cuigligh, meaning a descendant of a man named for “counsel” or “advice.”

A Spanish surname from a word for the jaw or jawbone, likely first used as a nickname for someone with a noticeable jaw or facial feature.

A Spanish surname that likely began as a nickname or regional label, and in some traditions is linked to the older form Quixada.

A surname of Spanish origin, likely from a personal name or a regional family name, most common in Hispanic communities.

An Irish and Manx surname, often treated as a form of MacQuillan or related names built on an old Gaelic word for “whelp” or “cur.”

A name that likely began as a place-name surname, meaning “from Quenby” in Leicestershire.

An Irish surname likely from an old Gaelic personal name, now best known as a family name from Ireland and the Irish diaspora.

An Irish surname usually meaning “descendant of Conn,” with Conn understood as “wise” or “intelligent.”

A common Spanish surname from places called a farmstead, estate, or country house.

A Spanish surname originally meaning “little country estate” or “small farmstead,” from a diminutive of *quinta* or *quintana*.

A Spanish surname originally linked to a tenant farmer or farm worker associated with a quinta (a country estate or rural holding).

A Spanish surname likely tied to a place name, especially one connected with vineyards or fields of vines.

A surname usually taken from places named Quinton, meaning “the queen’s estate or settlement.”

A Manx and Irish surname most often understood as a short form of Mac Cuirc, meaning “son of Corc.”

A Spanish locational surname from a place-name, most famously linked to the town of Quiroga in Galicia.

A Spanish surname most likely linked to a place name or regional family name from the Iberian world.

A Scandinavian surname from a word meaning “branch” or “twig.”

A Spanish surname most often linked to a place name or to the word for a thorny shrub, with the ñ sound giving it a distinctly Spanish shape.

A Hispanic surname most likely formed from the Spanish personal name Quinón or a related place-based family name, later extended with the patronymic suffix -ez.

A Muslim surname meaning a person connected with the Quraysh, the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad.