The Prete Last Name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Prete family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Prete by the numbers

Prete shows up clearly in official surname statistics. The 2010 census count for Prete in the United States was 1,024, good for rank 24,446. INSEE counts 457 people born in France with the Prete surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

Where a surname's origin is uncertain, as with Prete, the best clues come from your own ancestors' parish and civil records. Wikidata records Prete as an Italian family name.

Research your Prete family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.