page_title: Quintero (surname)
hierarchical_section_title: Quintero (surname)
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat of Arms for Spanish surname Quintero. Three bands of equal with, a yellow band with a red fleur-de-lis; a blue band with a rampant lion, and a white band with five red circles representing a "fifth".
context_page_description: Quintero is a Spanish surname originating in the Spanish region of Galicia. The name comes from quinto or quinta which means "fifth". It is possible that a "quintero" was a renter of quintas. The quintero would rent one-fifth of the land and pay as rent one-fifth of his produce of the land to the landlord.
  Others have suggested, not dissimilarly, that the surname is habitational, derived from a place called Quintero in Ourense province, so named from quinteiro, meaning "farmstead".
context_section_description: Quintero is a Spanish surname originating in the Spanish region of Galicia. The name comes from quinto or quinta which means "fifth". It is possible that a "quintero" was a renter of quintas (also known as haciendas, the Spanish equivalent to a ranch). The quintero would rent one-fifth of the land and pay as rent one-fifth of his produce of the land to the landlord.
  Others have suggested, not dissimilarly, that the surname is habitational, derived from a place called Quintero in Ourense province, so named from quinteiro, meaning "farmstead".
caption: Quintero Coat of Arms
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