Quintal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: quintal (an unofficial metric unit of mass equal to exactly 100 kg)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kintal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quintal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 55K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
yard
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Quintal is read(measured from records)
Quintal is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish47%
quintal (an unofficial metric unit of mass equal to exactly 100 kg)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Quintal in English.
- Portuguese12%
yard
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
yard (land with vegetable garden, next to a house)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quintal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Quintal | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,244 | 1 in 94K | 2.2K | Quintal | 89 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Quintal | 20 |
| US United States | — | 1,679 | 1 in 198K | 1.7K | Quintal | 114 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Quintal | 29 |
| PT Portugal | #446 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Quintal | 55 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Quintal | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Quintal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, de l’ancien français quintal « poids de cent livres »; surnom probable d’un individu lourd, corpulent.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, quintal, a nonstandard metric unit of mass equivalent to exactly 100 kg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Quintal Ib. 1795GBPitcairn Island politician
- Edward Quintalb. 1800Pitcairn Island politician
- John Quintalb. 1884AUAustralian politician (1884–1961)
- Francisco Quintalb. 1898PTborn 1898; died 1987
- Mary Quintalb. 1928SGPolice officer who rose through the ranks to become the highest ranking female officer
- Michelle Quintalb. 1940CACanadian organist
- Raimundo Quintalb. 1954PTPortuguese geographer and botanist
- Stéphane Quintalb. 1968CACanadian ice hockey player
- Jason Quintalb. 1987AUbadminton player
- Tiago Quintalb. 2006AUAustralian soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,871 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Quintal come from?
- yard Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Quintal?
- A machine transcription gives /kintal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Quintal mean?
- In Spanish, quintal (an unofficial metric unit of mass equal to exactly 100 kg)
- What are other forms of the name Quintal?
- In the etymology graph, Quinto is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Quintal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Quintal in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quintal.
- How common is the name Quintal?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,244 people named Quintal, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Quintal compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Quintal is the 446th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Quintal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quintalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quintal” — the 446th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.