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Fonseca (surname)

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Meaning
  
dry well

Language(s) of origin
  
Romance

Fonseca is a common Portuguese and Galician surname, while the variation Fonseka is common in Sri Lanka after Portuguese presence. A habitational name from any of several places named for a spring that dried up during the summer months, it comes from Latin fōns siccus, meaning "dry well". The name is also common among Sephardic Jews.

People

  • Adriana Fonseca, Mexican actress
  • Allyson Fonseca, Australian TV journalist
  • Alonso III Fonseca (1475-1534), Galician archbishop and politician
  • Andrea Fonseka, winner of Miss Malaysia Universe 2004, and actor, television presenter and model
  • Angelo da Fonseca (1902-1967), Goan Catholic artist
  • Bruno Fonseca (1958-1994), United States artist
  • Carlos Fonseca Amador, Nicaraguan founder of the Sandinistas
  • Carlos Fonseca (boxer), Brazilian boxer
  • Carolyn De Fonseca, United States actress
  • Celso Fonseca, Brazilian Samba, Bossa Nova and MPB guitarist and vocalist
  • Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan football (soccer) player
  • Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican football (soccer) player
  • David Fonseca, Portuguese singer
  • Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of the Republic of Brazil
  • Duduka da Fonseca, Brazilian jazz drummer and band leader
  • Édgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
  • Edison Fonseca, Colombian football (soccer) player
  • Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1751-1799) Italian poet and revolutionary
  • Francisco Fonseca, Mexican football (soccer) player
  • Fumilay Fonseca, São Toméan race walker
  • Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan film actor and politician.
  • Gonzalo Fonseca, Uruguayan sculptor
  • Graciano Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
  • Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, President of Brazil
  • Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693), rabbi, scholar, kabbalist and writer
  • Isabel Fonseca, American writer
  • J. P. de Fonseka, Sri Lankan essayist
  • Juan Fernando Fonseca (born 1979), Colombian singer better known under his stagename Fonseca
  • Lew Fonseca, American baseball player
  • Luis Fonseca, a United States Navy Hospital Corpsman and veteran of the Iraq War
  • Luis Fonseca (athlete), Venezuelan long-distance runner
  • Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
  • Malini Fonseka, Sri Lankan film actress
  • Mervyn Fonseka, Sri Lankan lawyer
  • Paulo Fonseca, Portuguese football manager
  • Peter Fonseca, Canadian politician
  • Ramón Fonseca Mora (born 1952), Panamanian novelist and co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, subject of the Panama Papers
  • Roberto Fonseca, Cuban jazz pianist
  • Roberto Fonseca (football manager), Brazilian football manager
  • Rolando Fonseca, Costa Rican football (soccer) player
  • Sarath Fonseka, Former General and the Commander of Sri Lankan Army, Chief of Defense staff of the Sri Lankan Tri Forces, and later a Sri Lankan presidential candidate
  • Susantha de Fonseka, Sri Lankan statesman
  • Tiago Cardoso Fonseca, Brazilian footballer
  • Todd A. Fonseca, American author of juvenile fiction

    • References

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