The Fedele Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Fedele is easy to measure, thanks to official name counts.

• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Fedele with 2,085 bearers, at rank 14,349. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 534 babies born in France were registered as Fedele, with the most births in 1961–1970. Births under the name grew in the later decades.
• We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Fedele, the family's own records come first.
• Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

Heraldry and the Fedele name

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Fedele coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line. For the full story, order the Fedele surname pack.