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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English, Scottish, French, and Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge, Middle English, Old French, Catalan pont (Latin pons, genitive pontis).
  2. Catalan: habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Pont.
  3. Dutch: variant of Pond 2.
  4. A Pont from the Lorraine region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1640; Pont appears to be a secondary surname to <xref>Etienne</xref> and <xref>Lamontagne</xref>.