Last name origins & meanings:
- English, Scottish, French, and Catalan: topographic name for
someone who lived near a bridge, Middle English, Old French, Catalan
pont (Latin pons, genitive pontis).
- Catalan: habitational name from any of the numerous places named
with Pont.
- Dutch: variant of
Pond 2.
- 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>.
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