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conte Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: from the title of rank conte ‘count’ (from Latin comes, genitive comitis ‘companion’). Probably in this sense (and the Late Latin sense of ‘traveling companion’), it was a medieval personal name; as a title it was no doubt applied ironically as a nickname for someone with airs and graces or simply for someone who worked in the service of a count.
  2. English: variant of Count, cognate with 1.
  3. French: nickname for someone in the service of a count or for someone who behaved pretentiously, from Old French conte, cunte ‘count’ (of the same derivation as 1).
  4. French (Conté): variant of Comté (see Comte).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of conte Families in the US in 1920
Number of conte families
 84-165
 29-83
 1-28
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