Fonteno Surname

785,023rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 360 people bear this surname

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

Fonteno Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Fonteno Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3561:1,018,14374,968
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States61:8,369,781355,680

The alternate forms: Fonteño (92) are calculated separately.

Fonteno Last Name Facts

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

The last name Fonteno (Russian: Фонтено) is borne by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Fonteño. Click here to see other possible spellings of Fonteno.

How Common Is The Last Name Fonteno? popularity and diffusion

The surname Fonteno is the 785,023rd most commonly occurring last name on earth, held by around 1 in 20,243,183 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 99 percent of Fonteno are found; 99 percent are found in North America and 99 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is held by 356 people, or 1 in 1,018,143. In The United States Fonteno is most numerous in: Texas, where 46 percent reside, California, where 28 percent reside and Arizona, where 6 percent reside. Besides The United States Fonteno exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Sweden, where 1 percent reside and Israel, where 0 percent reside.

Fonteno Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Fonteno has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Fonteno last name rose 5,933 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Fonteno Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Fonteno are 9.93% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 63.16% registered with the political party.

Fonteno earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 23.63% less than the national average, earning $32,951 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Fonteno Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Fonteno in the Russian language
Фонтеноfonteno-

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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 Fonteno
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