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The PONT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 526 39378 0 2
United States (1880 census) 44 53045 0 1
Change since 1880 +482 +13667 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 341 4631 0.002 21
United Kingdom 418 10106 0.001 9
Top States for PONT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 69 31802 0.000 2
Connecticut 65 6972 0.002 19
Florida 60 26516 0.000 4
Utah 26 8086 0.001 12
Massachusetts 23 31008 0.000 4
Top States for PONT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 65 6972 0.002 19
Rhode Island 15 9917 0.001 14
Utah 26 8086 0.001 12
Delaware 7 18639 0.001 9
Nebraska 9 23614 0.001 5

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of PONT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PONT 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PONT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PONT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 471 89.54
White (Hispanic) 37 7.03
Asian/Pacific 6 1.14
Black/African American 6 1.14
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PONT in historical publications

PONT. Fr., a bridge. Ilerbrand de Pont-Audemer, at the time of Domesday Book, held in caiite certain manors in Hiinipshire. Pont, with or Avithout some suflix, and Dupont, have always been common French surnames, of whicli there have doubtless been several importations into tiiis country. One of these took place on account of tlie Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and, in the year 1G91, we find a French refugee family of Pont resident in London. In some cases the name has been anglicised to Bridge.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PONT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PONT.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PONT

The following words are slight variants of PONT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.