The Dente Family Name

Dente is one more way Dent has been written over the centuries. In origin, the name means “Hill”. Dente adds “e” to Dent, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Dente with 885 bearers, at rank 27,303. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.

Arms linked to Dent and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Dente report, with a museum-style coat of arms.