Fontelles Surname

585,898th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 534 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Spain
Highest density in:
Spain

Fontelles Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Fontelles Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Spain3181:147,01910,915
Brazil1601:1,337,96545,535
France281:2,372,240182,981
Argentina251:1,709,73790,467
England21:27,859,030389,889
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Fontelles Last Name Facts

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

The last name Fontelles occurs in Spain more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Fontelles? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 585,898th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 13,647,090 people. The surname Fontelles occurs mostly in Europe, where 65 percent of Fontelles live; 60 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 60 percent live in Iberian Europe.

Fontelles is most frequently occurring in Spain, where it is borne by 318 people, or 1 in 147,019. In Spain Fontelles is primarily found in: Catalonia, where 49 percent live, Valencian Community, where 48 percent live and Balearic Islands, where 2 percent live. Apart from Spain this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 30 percent live and France, where 5 percent live.

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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
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  • 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 Fontelles
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