as a Last Name
- 18,101
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Fountain
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or well, from Old French fontane, Middle English fontayne ‘fountain’; in some cases the name may have arisen from French habitational names (Fontaine, Fonteyne, Lafontaine) of the same derivation.
| 1,708th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,101
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Fountain per capita
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