Dutch: topographic name from fonda ‘mine’ (from Latin
fundus, funda).
Catalan: possibly a topographic
name from fonda ‘inn’, from Arabic funduq, or perhaps a
nickname from fonda ‘slingshot’.
The name may also
be Italian, a habitational name from a place named with the adjective
fondo, fonda ‘deep’, for example Cavafonda ‘deep
cave’ or Vallefonda.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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