Surname Spotlight: Pontes

There is no single Pontes family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Pontes line, if any, bore arms.

How common is Pontes?

Counting heads is the honest place to start with Pontes.

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Pontes, the family's own records come first. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Pontes line back. 1,127 Americans were listed as Pontes in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames. Spain's INE counts 901 residents with Pontes as first surname and 907 with it as second.

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