Quintero surname meaning

Quintero is a Spanish surname, the Castilianized form of Galician Quinteiro. Dictionary treatments treat it as habitational from Quintero in Ourense province, Galicia, a place-name from Galician quinteiro, “farmstead” (also “farmyard” or enclosed plot). Families from that locality, or from similarly named farmsteads, took the place-name as a surname. Popular accounts sometimes link Quintero to Spanish quinto, “fifth,” as a tax or rent label, but the standard surname dictionaries prefer the Galician farmstead route. Quinteiro, Quinteros, and Quinter are related spellings. Place is the catalog type, and the Ourense/quinteiro chain is high confidence.