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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic) : possibly a nickname from pinta ‘shameless’, ‘outrageous’, ‘imprudent’.
  • Italian : variant of Pinto.
  • Galician and Spanish : nickname from pinta ‘speck’, possibly denoting someone with a blotchy complexion or a noticeable facial blemish.

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