Pont Family History
Pont Name Meaning
English (mainly Sussex) Scottish French and Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge Middle English Old French Catalan pont (from Latin pons genitive pontis). Compare French Dupont . Catalan: habitational name from any of numerous places called with pont ‘bridge’. Dutch: either from pond ‘pound’ (a measure of weight and a coin) probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a controller of weights and measures or a variant of Punt . Swedish: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022