Last Name FONTES

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, Cape verdean

Rank	8,139 (2000 US census)	8,298 (1990 US census)

Count	3,751 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

51.37%, or 1927 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
5.76%, or 216 total occurrences, as black,
1.23%, or 46 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.37%, or 14 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
15.14%, or 568 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
26.13%, or 980 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Scottish surnames

Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...