[QUOTE=Erisianmonkey;456816] Now that being said, I can give you a fun name from my family tree. My maternal grandfather's middle name was Quintes. Not Quint, not Quinton, but Quintes. No one in the family, including him could ever tell me why. But when you think that his parents were named Columbus Alonzo Cox and Narcissa Miller, the picture becomes a little clearer. QUOTE]

Perhaps Quintes was short for quintessential meaning:

1. the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
2. the most perfect embodiment of something.
3. (in ancient and medieval philosophy) the fifth essence or element, ether, supposed to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies, the others being air, fire, earth, and water.

Chase