The FONTANA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,525	4363	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	85	35062	0	2
Change since 1880	+7440	+30699	+N/A	+26
Other Countries
Australia	385	4116	0.002	24
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for FONTANA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,285	1362	0.007	68
California	936	3182	0.003	28
Florida	639	3104	0.004	40
New Jersey	464	1935	0.006	55
Pennsylvania	455	3248	0.004	37
Top States for FONTANA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	75	1826	0.010	96
Louisiana	330	1832	0.007	74
New York	1,285	1362	0.007	68
Connecticut	225	1887	0.007	66
New Jersey	464	1935	0.006	55

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

Classification and Origin of FONTANA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FONTANA 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 FONTANA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	386	5.13
Mixed Race	97	1.29
Asian/Pacific	47	0.62
Black/African American	30	0.4
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.11
White (Caucasian)	6,957	92.45

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

Similar names to FONTANA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FONTANA.

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.