Tracing the Peñate Family Name

Sharing the Peñate name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname statistics

Official name counts are where our Peñate file begins. Peñate is catalogued in Wikidata as a Spanish last name.

Spelling in old records was loose, so search for Peñate under several forms. The meaning of Peñate is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. According to the 2010 US Census, the Peñate surname had 2,211 bearers. 96% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino. In Spain, the INE population register lists 2,000 people with Peñate as their first surname and 1,918 as their second.

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