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Surname Etymology and Meaning of FOUNTAIN

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Originally De Fonte or De Fontibus (Fountain), from the springs or fountains near which they resided.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

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.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)