Fontana

At the 2020 census, 7,378 Americans bore the surname Fontana — 4,661st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,378
Rank: 4,661st
How common: 1 in 40,500
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Romance languages

From roa. From Vulgar Latin fontana.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.9%
Hispanic or Latino 8.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Fontana

Domenico Fontana (1543–1607)Italian architect
Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614)Italian painter
Isabeli Fontana (born 1983)Brazilian model
Lucio Fontana (1899–1968)Italian-Argentine sculptor, painter and theorist, Manifiesto blanco, Spatialism
Arianna Fontana (born 1990)Italian short track speed skater
Carlo Fontana (1638–1714)Italian architect (1634/1638–1714)
Juan López Fontana (1908–1984)Uruguayan football manager
Norberto Fontana (born 1975)racecar driver

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

Surnames like Fontana

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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.