Fontanos Surname

254,097th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,555 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Guam

Fontanos Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Fontanos Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines1,4201:71,29512,283
United States831:4,366,975231,516
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Canada91:4,093,955205,175
Guam81:20,0153,029
United Arab Emirates81:1,145,28440,289
Qatar61:393,00055,922
England21:27,859,030389,889
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Djibouti11:914,9321,612
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

The alternate forms: Fontaños (23) are calculated separately.

Fontanos Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Fontanos Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Fontanos is carried by more people in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Fontaños. Click here to see other possible spellings of Fontanos.

How Common Is The Last Name Fontanos? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 254,097th most commonly used family name internationally, held by around 1 in 4,686,525 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 92 percent of Fontanos are found; 91 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 90 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia.

Fontanos is most frequent in The Philippines, where it is carried by 1,420 people, or 1 in 71,295. In The Philippines Fontanos is mostly found in: Ilocos, where 50 percent reside, Cordillera Administrative Region, where 13 percent reside and Calabarzon, where 13 percent reside. Apart from The Philippines this last name is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 5 percent reside and Singapore, where 1 percent reside.

Fontanos Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Fontanos last name are 18.2% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 71.43% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Fontanos earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 24.05% more than the national average, earning $53,525 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8.49% less than the national average, earning $45,465 CAD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Fontanos
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