Belmonte Family History
Belmonte Name Meaning
Spanish Portuguese and Italian: habitational name from any of numerous places called Belmonte (‘beautiful mountain’) especially one in Portugal and another in Cuenca province Spain. Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022