Puentes Family Crest & Name History

The name Puentes is closely linked to Puente. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Bridge”.

Puentes and Puente

Puentes adds “s” to Puente, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

The 2010 census count for Puentes in the United States was 7,528, good for rank 4,711. Of these, 94% identified as Hispanic or Latino. Spanish statistics put 3,550 people with Puentes in first position and 3,445 in second.

Puentes coat of arms

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

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