Conte
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Either 'servant of a count' or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone with the airs of a count; also from Italian conte 'count', or from the male personal name Conte 'companion'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/konte/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Conte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 84th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 32K
- UYUruguay1 in 527as Conde
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Conte itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
29,492 named Conde
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Conde in AR Argentina, ES Spain, UY Uruguay and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Either 'servant of a count' or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone with the airs of a count; also from Italian conte 'count', or from the male personal name Conte 'companion'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Conte is read
(measured from records)Conte is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
Either 'servant of a count' or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone with the airs of a count; also from Italian conte 'count', or from the male personal name Conte 'companion'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from OFr cunte, conte ‘count, earl’; first attested Walter Conte 1296 SRSx
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
An Italian count.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Conte in Spanish.
- French14%
tale; story
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
inflection of contar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.5%
count (rank)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Conte counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #176 | 29,492as Conde | 1 in 1.7K | 29K | Conde | 209 |
| BR Brazil | — | 18,818as Conde | 1 in 11K | 19K | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 10,430as Conde | 1 in 32K | 10K | Conte | 376 |
| AR Argentina | #498 | 8,762as Conde | 1 in 5.2K | 8.8K | Conde | 102 |
| UY Uruguay | #89 | 6,426as Conde | 1 in 527 | 6.4K | Conde | 59 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 246 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 775 | 1 in 11K | 775 | Conte | 22 |
| BO Bolivia | #84 | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Conde | 50 |
29,492 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Richard Conteb. 1910USAmerican actor (1910–1975)
- Lansana Contéb. 1934GNsecond President of Guinea (1934–2008)
- Paolo Conteb. 1937ITItalian recording artist; musician
- Dominique Bonab. 1953FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer
- Luis Conteb. 1954CUCuban jazz musician
- Giuseppe Conteb. 1964ITPrime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021
- Antonio Conteb. 1969ITItalian association football player and manager
- Jack Conteb. 1984USAmerican musician and entrepreneur
- Antoine Conteb. 1994FRGuinean-French footballer
- Miriana Conteb. 2000MTMaltese singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,867 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8K | #4,276 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.4K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #4,387 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #4,385 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 775 | #1,580 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 425 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Conte mean, and where does it come from?
- Either 'servant of a count' or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone with the airs of a count; also from Italian conte 'count', or from the male personal name Conte 'companion'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Conte?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /konte/; in French /kɔ̃t/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kontɛ/; in Italian /ˈkon.te/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Conte have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Conde, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Conte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Conte is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Conte?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 775 people named Conte in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Conte compared with other names?
- In Spain, Conte is the 176th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/conteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Conte” — the 176th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.