Portuguese and Italian: topographic name for someone who lived near
a spring or well, from Latin fons, genitive fontis,
‘spring’, ‘well’, or a habitational name from a place named with this
word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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