Quince

Quince is a boy's baby name of Latin origin, from the Latin cydonea, referring to the quince fruit — a golden, fragrant relative of the apple prized in cooking and symbolizing love and fertility in ancient Greece and Rome. As a word name, it also evokes Peter Quince, the theatrical carpenter in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Quince is whimsical and literary — a name with golden, fragrant associations and a Shakespearean pedigree, perfect for parents with a taste for the rare and botanical.