Fontana

loc · Latin script

Meaning, in Maltese: Fontana (a village and local council of the Gozo Region, Malta)

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

/fontˈana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fontana is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina
  • MXMexico
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
144 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FontanaLatin(measured from records)
ΦωνταναGreek(measured from records)

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)

Fontana (a village and local council of the Gozo Region, Malta)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Fontana is read(measured from records)

Fontana is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Maltese48%

    Fontana (a village and local council of the Gozo Region, Malta)

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

  • English20%

    A surname from the Romance languages.

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fontana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Fontana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—11KFontana101
MX Mexico——Fontana39
US United States—7.7KFontana144
CO Colombia——Fontana20
BR Brazil—24K—1
CH Switzerland—2.4K—15
UY Uruguay—1.8K—40

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fontana is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Fontána

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fontaña

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Фонтана

  • Thai surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written ฟอนตาน่า, ฟอนทานา, ฟอนทาน่า, ฟอนตานา

56 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)

Fontana is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, do lat. fons, fontis; também hab. de localidades chamadas Fontana

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Serbo-Croatian, fountain (artificial water feature)

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

  • In Latin, spring, fountain, source

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

  • In frp, fountain

    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)

1400160018002000Niccolò Tartaglia, b. 1499Prospero Fontana, b. 1512Domenico Fontana, b. 1543Lavinia Fontana, b. 1552Lucio Fontana, b. 1899D. J. Fontana, b. 1931Tom Fontana, b. 1951Attilio Fontana, b. 1952Santino Fontana, b. 1982Isabeli Fontana, b. 1983

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Fontana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24K#711
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—11K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107.7K#4,615
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.5K#4,363
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.4K#4,661
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242.4K#371
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1.8K—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 7

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 Fontana mean, and where does it come from?
Fontana (a village and local council of the Gozo Region, Malta) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Fontana?
A machine transcription gives /fontˈana/ (IPA) for Maltese.
In which country does Fontana have the most bearers?
Fontana is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled fontana.

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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, “Fontana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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