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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a lively person, from Middle English faun, foun ‘fawn’ ‘cub’, Old French faon, or from the same word used as a personal name.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Fonce, a topographic name for someone living in a hollow.

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