Quintana surname meaning

Quintana is a Spanish, Catalan, Asturian-Leonese, and Galician habitational surname from any of numerous places named Quintana. The word quintana referred to a country house or estate originally liable for a tax of one-fifth of its annual produce. Families took the surname from the settlement they came from, so the name points to a place rather than a single ancestor’s trade. Related forms include Quintano and La Quintana. Place is high confidence for the Iberian habitational explanation that DAFN states without competing primary etymologies for the surname headword.