The surname Quant
An English nickname surname, carried by 618 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex Q530
Origin
English origin
Nickname from Middle English cwointe (“intelligent, smart, cunning”), the origin of quaint.
Quant is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 618 people named Quant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 499,588 Americans. That is down 9.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 686.
Who is named Quant
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
46% of people named Quant identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 39% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 46%
- White (not Hispanic) 39%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 6.6%
- Two or more races 1.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Quant has the Soundex code Q530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q530.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Quant come from?
- Nickname from Middle English cwointe (“intelligent, smart, cunning”), the origin of quaint.
- How common is the surname Quant?
- 618 people in the United States had the surname Quant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 499,588 Americans. It ranked 36,246th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Quant?
- In the 2010 Census, 46% of people named Quant identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 39% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Quant?
- Quant is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Quant getting more or less common?
- Less common. 686 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 618 in 2010, down 9.9%.