Fontan

See also: fontän and Fontán

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Fontan

1. A commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department, France.

Translations

a commune in France

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豐唐／丰唐 (Fēngtáng)

• Italian: Fontano
• Ligurian: Funtan

Etymology 2

Noun

Fontan (plural Fontans)

1. (medicine) A Fontan procedure.
   • 2013, Doron Weber, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:

     In preparation for our first meeting after months of cyber-contact, I send Dr. Chin Damon's complete medical records. But he keeps asking for more: echo reports, Holters (heart monitoring data), growth curves, and all protein and albumin readings since his Fontan.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish Fontán.

Proper noun

Fontan (plural Fontans)

1. A surname from Spanish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fontan is the 34390^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 659 individuals. Fontan is most common among Hispanic/Latino (62.97%) and White (34.9%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fontan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 588.

Anagrams

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