Origin and popularity of the name CONTE

Origin

Conte : 1: Italian: from the title of rank conte ‘count’ from Latin comes genitive comitis ‘companion’. Probably in this sense (and in 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 as a metonymic occupational name for someone in the service of a count. Compare Lo Conte.2: Spanish: variant of Conde ‘count’ (see also 1 above).3: French: variant of Comte 1 ‘count’ (see also 1 above).

Comte : French:: 1: nickname for someone in the service of a count or for someone who behaved pretentiously from Old French conte cunte ‘count’. In North America this surname is also a shortened form of the French cognate Lecomte. Compare Conte 3.2: (Comté): habitational name from Franche-Comté a province of eastern France.3: (Comté): habitational name from La Comté in Pas-de-Calais or numerous minor places called Comté.

Contino : Italian: from a diminutive of conte ‘count’ (see Conte).

Count : English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French counte ‘count’ (Old French conte from Latin comes comitem); a title of French and Norman nobility ranking as equivalent to English Earl.

Laconte : 1: Italian (La Conte): altered form of Lo Conte.2: Altered form of French Leconte with the feminine definite article la instead of masculine le (a change that has at least in part been the result of the American English pronunciation). The surname Laconte is also found in France (Nord) but it is rare there.

Lecomte : French and Walloon: nickname for someone in the service of a count or for someone who behaved pretentiously from Old French conte cunte ‘count’ with fused masculine definite article le. Compare Comte 1.

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