Looking to hone your baby name list? Use our list of boy names beginning with Q and their origins and meanings to find out if your son could be a Qasim, Qunicy or Quirinal

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1. Qadeem

  • Origin: Arabic
  • Meaning: ancient

2. Qasim

  • Origin: Arabic
  • Meaning: one who gives food to the people

3. Quaashie

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: ambitious

4. Quaddus

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  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: bright

5. Quadrees

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: four

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6. Quannell

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: strong willed

7. Quarren

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: tenacious

8. Quashawn

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: tenacious

9. Quentin

  • Origin: Latin
  • Meaning: fifth
  • Also: Quintin.

10. Quigley

  • Origin: Irish
  • Meaning: descendant of Coigleach
  • Also: Quigly

11. Quincy

  • Origin: French
  • Meaning: estate of the fifth son
  • Also: Quincey

12. Quinn

  • Origin: Irish Gaelic
  • Meaning: counsel

13. Quintavius

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: fifth child
  • Also: Quint

14. Quirinal

  • Origin: Greek
  • Meaning: in Greek mythology, the son of Mars

15. Quoitrel

  • Origin: African American
  • Meaning: equaliser

About our author Catherine Ball

Catherine Ball is a freelance journalist who specialises in writing about parenting and health. She has been a journalist for 20 years, writing for a wide range of regional and national publications. She is also mum to 4 children between the ages 3 and 12, so has drawn up many, many lists of baby names over the past few years.

Illustration: Emma Winchester

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