Fuentès
surname · Latin script
Fuentès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From fuente (“spring, fountain”).
- UYUruguay1 in 396(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 404
- ESSpain1 in 766
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 441 (measured from records)
- 1 in 396 (inferred from the name graph)
81,006 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fuentes in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Spanishfuente(inferred from the name graph)via fuente
- Latinfontem(inferred from the name graph)via fuente
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From fuente (“spring, fountain”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fuentès counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 81,006 | 1 in 4.1K | 83K | Fuentes | 441 |
| ES Spain | — | 65,327 | 1 in 766 | 65K | Fuentes | 109 |
| AR Argentina | — | 39,376 | 1 in 1.2K | 39K | Fuentes | 4 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 18,317 | 1 in 923 | 18K | Fuentes | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 12,604 | 1 in 404 | 13K | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 8,557 | 1 in 396 | 8.6K | — | — |
| PR Puerto Rico | #113 | — | — | — | Fuentes | 38 |
81,006 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fuentès mean, and where does it come from?
- From fuente (“spring, fountain”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Fuentès have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named Fuentès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fuentes.
- Where is Fuentès most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fuentès is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 396 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fuentès?
- In the United States, the national register counted 81,006 people named Fuentès in 2010, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Fuentès compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Fuentès is the 113th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fuentès” — the 113th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.