Fontaine

11,416 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fontaine in the 2020 census, making it the 3,069th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,200.

By the numbers

People: 11,416
Rank: 3,069th
How common: 1 in 26,200
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fontaine described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)French poet, fabulist and writer
Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)British actress
Just Fontaine (1933–2023)French football player and manager
Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943)Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Anne Fontaine (born 1959)Luxembourger film director
Brigitte Fontaine (born 1939)French poet and artist
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853)French architect
Pietro La Fontaine (1860–1935)Italian clergyman, Patriarch of Venice and cardinal

People named Fontaine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fontaine

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.