Fontenille Surname

543,414th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 590 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Fontenille Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Fontenille Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France5801:114,52217,221
United States71:51,779,848968,877
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382

Fontenille Last Name Facts

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

The surname Fontenille occurs more in France more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Fontenille? popularity and diffusion

The last name Fontenille is the 543,414th most commonly occurring surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 12,351,773 people. Fontenille occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of Fontenille are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.

The surname Fontenille is most frequent in France, where it is borne by 580 people, or 1 in 114,522. In France it is primarily concentrated in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 53 percent are found, Centre-Val de Loire, where 18 percent are found and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, where 10 percent are found. Outside of France this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent are found and Switzerland, where 0 percent are found.

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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 Fontenille
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