Fontenette Surname

337,050th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,093 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Fontenette Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Fontenette Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,0541:343,88930,927
France361:1,845,076161,051
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States331:1,521,77881,120

Fontenette Last Name Facts

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

Fontenette is found in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Fontenette? popularity and diffusion

The last name Fontenette is the 337,050th most widely held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 6,667,471 people. The surname is primarily found in The Americas, where 97 percent of Fontenette are found; 97 percent are found in North America and 97 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

Fontenette is most frequently held in The United States, where it is held by 1,054 people, or 1 in 343,889. In The United States it is mostly found in: Louisiana, where 39 percent live, Texas, where 36 percent live and California, where 11 percent live. Excluding The United States this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in France, where 3 percent live and Canada, where 0 percent live.

Fontenette Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Fontenette has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Fontenette surname expanded 3,194 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Fontenette Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Fontenette are 3.69% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 50.46% registered with the party.

Fontenette earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 15.22% less than the national average, earning $36,583 USD 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 Fontenette
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis