Fontanez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/foʊnˈtɑnɛz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fontanez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 72nd most common surname.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 82K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 102K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,036 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fontanez 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 | — | 4,036 | 1 in 82K | 4.4K | Fontanez | 247 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #72 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Fontanez | 42 |
| CU Cuba | #259 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Fontanez | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Fontanez | 6 |
| IN India | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Fontanez | 3 |
| PS Palestine | #548 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Fontanez | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Fontanez | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Fontanez | 1 |
4,036 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jules Fontanezb. 1875CHSwiss painter (1875-1918)
- Randy Fontanezb. 1989USAmerican baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,354 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,222 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Fontanez?
- A machine transcription gives /foʊnˈtɑnɛz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fontanez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Fontanez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fontanez.
- How common is the name Fontanez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,036 people named Fontanez in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Fontanez compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Fontanez is the 72nd most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fontanezThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fontanez” — the 72nd most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.