Comte Family History
Comte Name Meaning
French:: nickname for someone in the service of a count or for someone who behaved pretentiously from Old French conte cunte ‘count’. In North America this surname is also a shortened form of the French cognate Lecomte . Compare Conte (Comté): habitational name from Franche-Comté a province of eastern France. (Comté): habitational name from La Comté in Pas-de-Calais or numerous minor places called Comté.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022