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fountain Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fountain name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the fountain family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of fountain Families in the US in 1920
Number of fountain families
 133-264
 45-132		 1-44
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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