Fonters Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Fonters Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 37 | 1:1,795,209 | 158,669 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Fonters Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fonters Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Fonters is most common in France. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Fonters? popularity and diffusion
Fonters is the 3,141,416th most frequently used surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 186,860,152 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 97 percent of Fonters are found; 97 percent are found in Western Europe and 95 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.
This surname is most frequently held in France, where it is borne by 37 people, or 1 in 1,795,209. In France it is primarily found in: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 65 percent are found, Île-de-France, where 16 percent are found and Occitanie, where 14 percent are found. Without taking into account France this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 3 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.
Fonters Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Fonters has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Fonters last name decreased 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Fonters
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