Meaning and background
The story behind Quintero
Quintero is a Spanish surname with a Galician place-name route. The Dictionary of American Family Names treats it as a Castilianized form of Quinteiro and identifies a place in Ourense province whose name uses farmstead vocabulary. This gives the exact spelling a migration-between-language-forms history as well as a geographical source. A dog’s family tribute can preserve Quintero while explaining that it is related to, rather than identical in spelling with, Quinteiro.
- Origin
- Castilianized Galician Quinteiro, a habitational surname associated with a farmstead-named place in Ourense. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Quintero appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/kwintɛɹoʊ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the second syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/kwintɛɹoʊ/ · primary stress on syllable 2K W IY0 N T EH1 R OW0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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