The Arent Last Name

Whether you spell it Arent or Arendt, the story begins in the same place. Its meaning, shared with Arendt, is “From Arnold ("eagle power")”. Records show Arent as one of the forms Arendt took over time. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Arent surname had 1,186 bearers. That puts it inside the top 25,000 US surnames. 187 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Arent name at birth. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Arnt and Arend.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Arent, so the heraldry linked to Arendt is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Arent surname pack.