Fenelon

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• Borrowed from French Fénelon, a habitational surname mostly found in Haiti.
• Irish surname, a variant of Fenlon.

Proper noun

Fenelon (countable and uncountable, plural Fenelons)

1. A surname.
2. A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fenelon is the 23002^nd 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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fenelon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 563.