Baby boy names beginning with Q – with origins and meanings
On the hunt for baby name ideas for a boy that start with the 17th letter of the alphabet? We’ve got some quality suggestions, along with their origin and meaning
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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
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
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.
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