Fontina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fontina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 20Mas Фонтіна(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 38Mas Фонтина
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fontina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4 named Фонтина, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ukraine, est., as Фонтіна
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Фонтина in RU Russia, TR Türkiye and Фонтіна in UA Ukraine.
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)
A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fontina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 38M | — | Фонтина | 11 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Фонтіна | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Фонтина | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
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.
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)
Fontina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Italian cheese
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fontina mean, and where does it come from?
- A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Fontina a male or female name?
- Fontina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Fontina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people named Фонтина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fontina?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people in Russia have Фонтина as their first surname, about 1 in 38 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Fontina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fontinaThe 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, “Fontina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.