Fuente

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Fuente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: spring (water), fountain.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 8.5K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 10K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
290 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

spring (water), fountain

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fuente 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.

Where Fuente is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Fuente67
ES Spain#1645,8731 in 8.5K5.9KFuente185
ID Indonesia—≈5,800 est.≈1 in 46K—Fuente5
CL Chile#615≈5,800 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Fuente105
AR Argentina#4752,5011 in 18K2.5KFuente86
BO Bolivia—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Fuente47

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fuente is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fuentè, Fuenté

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Fuenté, Fûèńtè, Fúentë, Fuentè

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Фуэнте, Фуенте

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fuente 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 Asturian, alternative form of fonte

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Matías Antolín, b. 1948José Alfonso Fuente Parga, b. 1972Justin Fuente, b. 1976Diego Alejandro Silva, b. 1983Fruela, b. 1987Jhan Mariñez, b. 1988Ane Azkona, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Fuente
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.9K#925
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.9K#925
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.5K—

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Fuente mean, and where does it come from?
spring (water), fountain Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Fuente have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Fuente in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fuente.
How common is the name Fuente?
In Spain, the national register counted 5,873 people named Fuente, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
How common is Fuente compared with other names?
In Spain, Fuente is the 164th most common surname of 395,154 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, “Fuente” — the 164th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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