Origin and formation
Quezon is a surname of Hokkien origin that passed through Spanish spelling. It may represent ke-sun, written 雞孫 or 鸡孙; the second element sun means “grandson”. Quezon is also associated with the surname spelling Quizon. Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina bore Quezon as his paternal surname and Molina as his maternal surname. He led the Philippine Commonwealth from 1935 to 1944. Quezon City and the province formerly called Tayabas were named after him, extending the family name into Philippine geography.
Spelling variants
- Quezón · Spelling source ↗
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /ˈkeson/ · /keˈson/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Cebuano: /ˈkeson/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /ˈkeθon/ · /keˈθon/ · /ˈkeson/ · Wiktionary ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Quezon has 4 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts
Related given-name entries
The given-name catalogue has separate entries with the same spelling. Each page explains its own given-name use and sources.