Fons

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: Fons (a village in Gard department, Occitania, France)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Fons is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 31K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 158K
  • UYUruguay1 in 77K

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)

1,614 people

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Fons (a village in Gard department, Occitania, France)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Fons is read(measured from records)

Fons is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish37%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Fons in Spanish.

  • English33%

    Roman god of springs

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    ancient mythology; spring/fountain

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • French20%

    Fons (a village in Gard department, Occitania, France)

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

  • Catalan6.8%

    bottom (lowest part)

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Fons 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 Fons is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,6141 in 31K1.6KFons92
FR France≈790 est.≈1 in 86K117—2
US United States5131 in 648K588Fons54
AR Argentina2871 in 158K287Fons32
PL Poland1471 in 260K78——
UY Uruguay441 in 77K44Fons7

1,614 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)

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

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Foens, Funs, Füńs, Fonš, Föns

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Spain, United States

    Also written Foñs, Fôñs

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Spain

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Föns

46 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)

Fons is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, a diminutive of the male given name Alfons

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

  • In Latin, water issuing from the ground, a spring

    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)

18801900192019401960Pierre Fons, b. 1880Julia Fons, b. 1882Leonard Fons, b. 1903Pierre Garcia-Fons, b. 1928Angelino Fons, b. 1936Jorge Fons, b. 1939Gabriel Cañellas i Fons, b. 1941Antoni Parera Fons, b. 1943Josep Maria Civit i Fons, b. 1954

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Fons,Dear Mr Fons, (English)
InformalHola Fons,Hi Fons, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Fons
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#2,898
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#2,897
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020588#40,219
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000528#39,240
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010513#42,308
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—287—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991117—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941113—

Reference works 5

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 Fons mean, and where does it come from?
Fons (a village in Gard department, Occitania, France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Fons?
In the etymology graph, Alonso and Alonzo are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Fons?
A machine transcription gives /fons/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Fons have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Fons, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fons.
Where is Fons most common?
Fons is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 31 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Fons?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,614 people named Fons, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.

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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, “Fons”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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