Fenelon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Various origins:
- Borrowed from French Fénelon, a habitational surname mostly found in Haiti.
- Irish surname, a variant of Fenlon.
Proper noun
[edit]Fenelon (countable and uncountable, plural Fenelons)
- A surname.
- A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Fenelon is the 23002nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1111 individuals. Fenelon is most common among Black/African American (62.65%) and White (30.96%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fenelon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 563.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Irish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- en:Ghost towns in Nevada, USA
- en:Places in Nevada, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames from French
- English surnames from Irish