The FONTENOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,203	1715	0.007	71
United States (1880 census)	903	5957	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+18300	+4242	+0.005	+53
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	2	34909	0	0

Top States for FONTENOT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	12,949	22	0.290	2,898
Texas	3,456	718	0.017	166
California	481	5793	0.001	14
Florida	275	6991	0.002	17
Georgia	227	3758	0.003	28
Top States for FONTENOT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	12,949	22	0.290	2,898
Texas	3,456	718	0.017	166
Mississippi	158	2309	0.006	56
Alaska	21	4443	0.003	33
Alabama	133	3978	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of FONTENOT

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 FONTENOT 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 FONTENOT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	275	1.43
Mixed Race	242	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	56	0.29
Asian/Pacific	52	0.27
White (Caucasian)	15,047	78.36
Black/African American	3,531	18.39

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

Similar names to FONTENOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FONTENOT.

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.