Quested is an English surname. It originated as a

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,

Wherstead Wherstead is a village and a civil parish located in the county of Suffolk, England. Wherstead village lies south of Ipswich on the Shotley peninsula. It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council. History It is an ...

in the county of

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

. Variant spellings include Quersted and Querstede. Early records of bearers of this surname include a John Querstede of

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

in the '' Close Rolls'' for 1376. Data compiled by

Patrick Hanks Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated a ...

on the basis of the

2011 United Kingdom census A Census in the United Kingdom, census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Inter ...

and the

Census of Ireland 2011 The 2011 census of Ireland was held on Sunday, 10 April 2011. It was administered by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland and found the population to be 4,588,252 people.

found 253 people with the surname Quested on the island of

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...

and none on the island of

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. The

1881 United Kingdom census The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the Census in the United Kingdom, UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Detail ...

found 195 people with this surname, mostly in

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

. People with this surname include: * James Head Quested (), Australian ship owner * John Quested (RAF officer) (1893–1948), English World War I flying ace * Len Quested (1925–2012), English footballer *

John Quested (producer) John Quested (born 1935) is an English film producer and director. He has been the owner and chairman of Goldcrest Films since the early 1990s. He began his career as a third assistant director on ''The Criminal (1960 film), The Concrete Jungle ...

(born 1935), British film producer and owner and chairman of Goldcrest Films *

Dave Quested David Murray Quested (16 April 1946 – 6 August 2024) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in five Test matches between 1995 and 2001 and 31 One Day International games between 1992 and 2002. He also umpired the final of the 2000 Wome ...

(born 1946), New Zealand cricket umpire

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