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Surname Etymology and Meaning of QUINCE

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English: probably a topographic name for someone who lived by a quince tree or a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of quinces, from Middle English, Old French cooin ‘quince’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)