Conde Family History
Conde Surname Meaning
Spanish and Portuguese: nickname from the title of rank conde ‘count’ a derivative of Latin comes comitis ‘companion’. See Conte.
English (Shropshire): variant of Cundy a cognate of 3 below or Cound a habitational name from Cound in Shropshire.
French (Condé): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy and Picardy called Condé a French form of the Gaulish condate ‘junction of rivers’. Compare Candee.
West African (mainly Guinea; Condé): from the name of the Kondé clan of the Mandinka people of unexplained etymology.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
