Quist Family History
- Quist Name Meaning
- Swedish: ornamental name from Swedish quist, an old or ornamental spelling of kvist ‘twig’. When surnames were adopted on a large scale in the 19th century in Sweden, this was one of the elements that were widely used in combination with other words denoting natural features to form surnames such as Lindqvist and Blomqvist. Danish: nickname for a thin man, from kvist ‘twig’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 108,548 Historical Documents with Quist on Ancestry
- 45,559 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,409 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,219 Military Records
- 4,401 Immigration Records
- 40,960 Member Trees
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Number of Quist families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Quist census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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