Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cumquintin(a), Cumquyntyn(e) c.1155 Weth c.1200 AOMB 1540

• Cumquinton 1227 FF

• Comquynton 1376 Pat

• Cumquynton 1541 MinAcct

• Conquintun' 1235 Cl

• Cunquintyn' 1285 For

• Cumbquintyn 1278 Ass 1332 SR

• Comquyntyn 1301 Cl

• Comquyntin 1318 Misc

• Comquintyn 1363 Ipm

• Cumquityn 1331 For

• Cumwhyntyn 1485 Ipm

• Comwhintyng(e) 1490 CRental

• Cumwhinting 1530 MinAcct 1650 ParlSurv

• cum Whynton 1551 FF

Etymology

'Valley of Quintin ,' as first suggested by Sedgefield (41). The first element is the British form corresponding to Welsh  cwm (from *cumbā ), 'valley.' Quintin or Quentin was not very rare as a Christian name in pre-Reformation Scotland. A relic of St Quintin was preserved in York Minster (Rolls Series, Historians of the Church of York , iii, 109), and he was at one time patron of Kirk Hammerton, WYR.The site of St Quintin's Church, Kirkton, is still pointed out in Kirkmahoe (R.C. Anc. Mon. Scot. Dumf. 352).