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The armenta Surname

armenta Name Meaning and History

Spanish: from Latin armenta ‘herd(s)’, applied to cattle and horses and, by extension, to places and persons involved with them, hence either an occupational name for a herdsman or a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where cattle or horses were raised.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of armenta Families in the US in 1920
Number of armenta families
 21-39
 8-20
 1-7
 0
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