Last name: FONTENOT
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FONTENOT : This last name is indexed 16,182 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FONTENOT : French: variant of Fonteneau (and in North America an altered form of this) a topographic name from a diminutive of Old French fontaine ‘spring well’ (see Fontaine) or a habitational name from any of several places mainly in the westcentral part of France so named. The surname Fontenot is very rare in France.
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