Armenta Family History
Armenta Name Meaning
Spanish: derivative of armento ‘cattle livestock’ (from Latin armenta ‘herds’) applied to cattle and horses and by extension to places and persons involved with them hence either a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman or a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where cattle or horses were raised. Italian: variant of Armento a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022