Fontanella is used as a family name or surname in Argentina. It is 10 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Fontanella
No. of characters: 10
Origin: Argentina
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Fontanella

How popular is Fontanella?

Fontanella is common in Argentina.

Fontanella is ranked 42130 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Fontanella bearers increased by 0.7874016 per cent in 2010 US census to 512 since 2000, the surname slipped by 1826 spots and ranked at 42378. The last name was found in around 2 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.99 94.09
Hispanic or Latino 5.47 3.35
Others 1.37 0
Fontanella is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Italy which signifies that it is originated from Italy. Around 11546 people have been found who wears Fontanella as their family name. Fontanella is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
46,707 New Zealand5
40,064 Nigeria2
31,584 Peru1
897,276 Russia1
28,746 Algeria1
492,292 Ukraine1
37,493 Austria1
19,810 Croatia1
2,877 Cuba1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
20,172 Hungary1
118,015 Netherlands1
21,562 Portugal1
36,814 Romania1
38,841 Scotland1
1,704,541 India1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
64,073 Australia28
124,653 Canada20
324,631 Indonesia17
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
41,845 England97
15,572 Switzerland72
Countries with hundreds of Fontanella:
37,715 United States748
43,536 Germany235
50,564 France196
17,272 Spain183
39,125 South Africa128
Countries with thousands of Fontanella:
1,857 Italy4,916
3,831 Brazil3,720
4,441 Argentina1,165
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Alessandro Fontanella was 16 years old when he migrated to New York on February 14, 1895. He lived in Italy where he worked as laborer and took Normannia from Marahan. Amalia Fontanella, aged 22, Angela Maria Fontanella, aged 21, Angelo Fontanella (18) Laborer, 21 years old Antonio Fontanella, Antonio Fontanella (37) Laborer, Bibi Fontanella (36) Laborer, Laborer Carlo Fontanella, Cirillo Fontanella (17) Laborer, and 56 other Fontanella around 35.71% of whom were laborer while others worked as housewife and farmer, country man, sailor, peasant migrated to US from Naples, Genoa, Gibraltar & Naples, Havre, Bordeaux and Marahan.

Fontanella Namesakes

  • Luigi Fontanella, Poet
  • Luigi Fontanella, Poet
  • DeAnn Fontanella, Christian Albertson's mother
  • Francesc Fontanella, Poet

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