The surname Fenelon
A French place surname, carried by 1,111 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex F545
Origin
French origin
Various origins: * Borrowed from French Fénelon, a habitational surname mostly found in Haiti. * Irish surname, a variant of Fenlon.
Fenelon is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,111 people named Fenelon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 277,899 Americans. That is up 37% since 2000, when the Census counted 812.
Who is named Fenelon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
63% of people named Fenelon identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 63%
- White (not Hispanic) 31%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
- Two or more races 1.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Fenelon
Fenelon has the Soundex code F545, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F545.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Fenelon come from?
- Various origins: * Borrowed from French Fénelon, a habitational surname mostly found in Haiti. * Irish surname, a variant of Fenlon.
- How common is the surname Fenelon?
- 1,111 people in the United States had the surname Fenelon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 277,899 Americans. It ranked 23,002nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fenelon?
- In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Fenelon identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Fenelon?
- Fenelon is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Fenelon getting more or less common?
- More common. 812 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,111 in 2010, up 37%.