Fontal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fontal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 135K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 207K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 226K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)
370 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fontal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 370 | 1 in 135K | 370 | Fontal | 65 |
| CO Colombia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Fontal | 35 |
| US United States | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | listed | Fontal | 39 |
| AR Argentina | 48 | 1 in 947K | 48 | Fontal | 26 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Fontal | 9 |
| PA Panama | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Fontal | 5 |
370 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fontal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Of, relating to, or from a spring or fountain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, well
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( SP , Deen I 456, Dv ), fontale ( H ), fontela ( L-côte ap. A ; Dv ). Puntal. "Poutre, traîne" SP . "Étai, étançons" H . "Viga" A . Ezen behin sartu denean gaitz da haren [koleraren] atheratzea, ikusirik sartzen dela urthume bat bezala eta den gutienaren buruan loditzen eta fontal egiten dela . SP Phil 232 (He 234 handitzen eta loditzen ) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 370 | #10,176 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 370 | #10,169 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 48 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Fontal have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 370 people named Fontal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fontal.
- Where is Fontal most common?
- Fontal is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 135 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fontal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 370 people named Fontal, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fontalThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fontal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.