# Ponton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #85,658

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
Three main origins:
* English and Scottish habitational surname, from the villages of Great and Little Ponton, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* Borrowed from French Ponton.
* Borrowed from Spanish Pontón.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ponton