Conté
surname · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of conter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɔ̃te/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Conté 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.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 527as Conde
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1Kas 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 Conté itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
29,492 named Conde
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Conde in ES Spain, VE Venezuela, PH Philippines and 3 more and Conte in IT Italy, CH Switzerland.
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)
past participle of conter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Conté 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 |
| PH Philippines | #561 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Conde | 62 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Conte | 80 |
| BR Brazil | — | 18,818as Conde | 1 in 11K | 19K | — | 4 |
| CO Colombia | #416 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 7 | Conde | 113 |
| VE Venezuela | #356 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Conde | 59 |
| BO Bolivia | #84 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Conde | 50 |
| UY Uruguay | #89 | 6,426as Conde | 1 in 527 | 6.4K | Conde | 59 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 775 | 1 in 11K | 775 | Conte | 22 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Conté is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Voir Comté .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of contar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, third-person singular present indicative of contenir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, county (land ruled by a count or countess)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative letter-case form of Conté.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicolas-Jacques Contéb. 1755FRFrench painter, and inventor of the modern pencil (1755-1805)
- Alexandre Contéb. 1764FRFrench politician (1764-1855)
- Arnould Humblot-Contéb. 1776FRFrench politician
- Pierre Contéb. 1891FRFrench choreographer (1891–1971)
- Seydou Contéb. 1921GNGuinean diplomat
- Julien Contéb. 1987FRFrench volleyball player
- Karim Contéb. 1999GNGuinean association football player
- Facinet Conteb. 2005GNGuinean footballer (born 2005)
- Ousmane ContéGNGuinean politician
- Aicha Nénette ContéGNGuinean politician
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Conté mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of conter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Conté?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔ̃te/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Conté have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Conde, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Conté?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 775 people named Conté in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Conté compared with other names?
- In Spain, Conté is the 176th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Conté?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cont%C3%A9The 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, “Conté” — the 176th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.