Quintero

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Quintero is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico. In Panama it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PAPanama1 in 219◐
  • COColombia1 in 230
  • VEVenezuela1 in 277

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈105K ●

across 8 countries

#864 ●

of 21M surnames

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
372 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 992 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

QuinteroLatin · Spanish●1.4M records
КинтероCyrillic · Russian●91 records

Locally spelled Кинтеро in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Quintero is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#158325,293267K rec.—2.2KQuintero211
VE Venezuela#45324,953311K rec.—705Quintero116
CO Colombia#28244,19698K rec.—116Quintero191
US United States—41,158144K rec.1 in 8.1K41KQuintero372
PA Panama#323,29322K rec.—127Quintero82
ES Spain#27522,49734K rec.1 in 2.2K22KQuintero156
AR Argentina#31720,35988K rec.1 in 2.2K20KQuintero75
NI Nicaragua#7819,17919K rec.——Quintero37
EC Ecuador#40617,033△610 rec.1 in 99217KQuintero56
PH Philippines—10,6888.3K rec.——Quintero55
CR Costa Rica—2,3994.3K rec.1 in 2.1K2.4K—56
BR Brazil—1,1858.4K rec.1 in 179K1.2KQuintero72

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.4M81%
  • English171K10%
  • 28K2%
  • Catalan23K1%
  • Portuguese14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,355,59481%
English170,55510%
27,8952%
Catalan22,5001%
Portuguese13,9981%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Quintero is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname201K records spelled Quintero9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Quíntero

  • a separate surname32K records spelled Quintero2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Quíntero

  • Catalan surname28K records spelled Quintero3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Quintéro

  • Lao surname7.9K records spelled Quintero4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Q'Uintero, Qüïntërö

  • Croatian surname946 records spelled Quintero7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Qüïntërö

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0200400600190019502000447 · 1995

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Quintero in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19001
19043
19054
19061
19078
19083
19094
19116
19127
19135
19146
19153
19164
191711
191810
19194
192011
192111
192212
19237
192416
192515
192615
192714
192817
192919
19309
193118
193218
193320
193419
193519
193628
193724
193826
193931
194017
194141
194227
194335
194445
194542
194641
194739
194844
194942
195034
195150
195259
195350
195464
195575
195659
195775
195877
195986
196076
196181
196270
196381
196479
196587
1966155
1967125
1968103
1969121
1970120
1971107
1972113
1973114
1974149
1975142
1976181
1977172
1978170
1979181
1980277
1981187
1982376
1983362
1984198
1985298
1986304
1987204
1988248
1989229
1990227
1991228
1992260
1993270
1994383
1995447
1996224
1997208
1998313
1999359
2000325
2001259
2002281
2003297
2004272
2005298
2006310
2007342
2008357
2009346
2010312
2011334
2012318
2013304
2014297
2015298
2016288
2017334
2018294
2019320
2020229
2021313
2022319
2023291
2024235

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 121 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Rafael Caro Quintero, b. 1952Angelino Garzón, b. 1956José Raúl Mulino, b. 1959David Zepeda, b. 1974Diego Fernando Salazar Quintero, b. 1980Alberto Abdiel Quintero Medina, b. 1987Laura Gómez, b. 1990Irene Esser, b. 1991Juan Fernando Quintero, b. 1993Rafael Quintero, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Quintero
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201041K#839
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202041K#826
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200030K#1,070
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—22K#229
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—22K#229
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—20K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202417K#254
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—17K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.4K#338
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—2.2K#175
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,909
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—705#2,068

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 177 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Quintero?
We estimate roughly 105 thousand people bear Quintero (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Quintero have the most bearers?
Quintero is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled quintero.
How common is Quintero compared with other names?
In Mexico, Quintero is the 158th most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quintero” — the 158th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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