The Abrante Family Name

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

Meaning of the name

Many Abrante families will find their roots under Abrantes, the form most records use. Name scholars give the meaning as “From Abrantes”.

Without the “s” of Abrantes, Abrante is a simpler written form of the same name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. In Spain, the INE population register lists 1,055 people with Abrante as their first surname and 1,074 as their second.

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