Quintavius as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Quintavius

What is the meaning of the name Quintavius ?

The baby name Quintavius is a boy name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced kwin-TAY-vee-us.

Quintavius is African American, Latin in Origin.

Quintavius is a modern Latinate formation built on Latin quīntus, fifth. The secure ancient base is Quintus, a Roman praenomen recorded from the Republic onward and belonging to the numerical name set with Sextus and Decimus. In Quintavius, Quint- supplies the numeral stem, while -avius echoes Roman gentilicia such as Octavius and Flavius rather than representing a separate classical suffix. The literal sense is therefore best read as fifth one, not as an attested Roman family name.

American records place Quintavius chiefly in late twentieth-century use. SSA birth data begin tracking it in 1987 and show a 1996 high of 29 boys, while 2020 Census first-name tables counted 267 bearers, 94.4 percent reported as Black or African American; that distribution supports an African American usage association, not a change in its Latin root. Quintavious is the closest spelling variant, with Quintavis and Quentavius nearby; older cognates include Quintus, Quinto, Quintinus, Quentin, and Quintin.