Quinones surname meaning

Quinones is the usual US spelling of Spanish and Asturian-Leonese Quiñones, a habitational name from places so called in León and Murcia. The place-word comes from quiñón, from Latin quinio, “group of five,” for a strip of land shared among five co-tenants for sowing. American records often drop the ñ, writing Quinones; Quinonez and Quiñónez are Hispanic variants. The surname points to origin at or from such a place, not to a personal nickname. Place is high confidence for that five-tenant landholding name.