Fontenot Family History
Fontenot Name Meaning
French: from a diminutive of fontane ‘spring’, ‘fountain’.
Written Fonteneau, Fonteneault in French Canada, this is
a secondary surname of Desmoulins, Dumoulin, frequently
found in English as Miller. Fontenot is common in LA.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fontenot Families
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United States
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Scotland
Number of Fontenot families
 596 - 1,189  199 - 595 |
 1 - 198  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fontenot Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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