Fontella
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fontella has been given to 589 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 104 recorded.
Babies named Fontella, 1990
1 in 658,000
Fontella over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Fontella?
Fontella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 658,000
- 6 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 456,318 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fontella sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fontella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Fontellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fontella was born before 1965 — so the typical Fontella is around 60 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 39.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 351
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (233).
Is Fontella rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1966 (104)
- Years since peak
- 59
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 93.1% average annual change
Spellings of Fontella
Fontella is not the most common spelling — Donella is, with 75.6% against Fontella's 24.4%.
- Donella75.6%1,823
- Fontella24.4%589
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Fontella is used
Across 1910–2025, Fontella was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 631,720 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fontella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Fontella around the world
Where Fontella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1966–1967#650in 1967
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Fontella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Fontella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fontella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.