The pinto Surname
pinto Name Meaning and History
- Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): nickname from pinto ‘colorful’, ‘painted’.
- Spanish: habitational name from Pinto in Madrid.
- Catalan (Pintó): Catalan variant of Pintor ‘painter’.
- Portuguese: from a nickname from pinto ‘chick’. This name is also common in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.
- Italian: from pinto ‘mottled’, ‘dotted’ (Late Latin pinctus, for classical Latin pictus ‘painted’), hence a nickname for a person with a blotchy or pock-marked complexion or pepper-and-salt hair, or in some parts of the south at least from the same word in the sense ‘lively or restless person’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 73 - Messages: 264
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Thankful and Abigail Peck |
 lumary
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| PINTO, Tricia - Trinidad, West Indies - any clues? | Tricia Pinto | 1 |
| PINTO Mabel L Gigi 1897 1989 in loving memory |
t42FiveMile
| 1 |
| Anthony T. Pinto of Galveston, TX. in 1900 |
BasketLady420
| 2 |
| PINTO Alfonso L and Maria I |
t42RoseHill
| 0 |
| Chicago Pintos |
lisaleslie504
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| pinto from Venezuela | carmen pinto de pinazo | 3 |
| Pinto name history? | Joe Pinto | 38 |
| Francis Pinto |
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| Jacob Pinto family of Dubuque Iowa - 1860-1880 |
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