Fountain

At the 2020 census, 19,176 Americans bore the surname Fountain — 1,835th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,600.

By the numbers

People: 19,176
Rank: 1,835th
How common: 1 in 15,600
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

Topographic surname for someone who lived near a fountain, spring or well.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.3%
Black, not Hispanic 31.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Fountain

Hyleas Fountain (born 1981)American heptathlete
Pete Fountain (1930–2016)American clarinetist

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

Surnames like Fountain

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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.