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Subject: Re: My Name
Author: Marina   (guest, 84.27.0.213)
Date: August 3, 2012 at 1:19:09 PM
Reply to: My Name by Debora Cintron
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=cintron

Hispanic (Puerto Rico; Cintrón): unexplained; perhaps a nickname from a variant of Spanish cinturón ‘belt’.

http://www.4crests.com/cintron-coat-of-arms.html

This surname of CINTRON was a locational name meaning 'one who came from CINTRA (now SINTRA) the name of a town in central Portugal.

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