The FONTAINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,542	2856	0.004	43
United States (1880 census)	835	6327	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+10707	+3471	+0.002	+26
Other Countries
Australia	120	12135	0.001	7
United Kingdom	372	10996	0.001	8

Top States for FONTAINE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,858	403	0.029	293
Florida	1,116	1791	0.007	70
California	749	3872	0.002	22
Rhode Island	733	98	0.070	699
Connecticut	661	515	0.019	194
Top States for FONTAINE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	733	98	0.070	699
Vermont	297	231	0.049	488
New Hampshire	441	371	0.036	357
Massachusetts	1,858	403	0.029	293
Maine	336	734	0.026	264

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FONTAINE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FONTAINE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FONTAINE in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FONTAINE by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FONTAINE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FONTAINE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FONTAINE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	991	8.59
White (Hispanic)	335	2.9
Mixed Race	179	1.55
Asian/Pacific	60	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	29	0.25
White (Caucasian)	9,948	86.19

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FONTAINE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FONTAINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FONTAINE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.