Arnette Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Arms linked to Arnett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

The name Arnette is closely linked to Arnett. Read literally, Arnette points to “Little Arnold”.

The extra “e” in Arnette is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Arnette with 2,544 bearers, at rank 12,231. French civil records give 190 births under the name Arnette from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1981–1990.

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