About the Pion-Fontaine surname
The surname Pion-Fontaine is associated with a patronymic formation. Pion-Fontaine is a compound surname. Its form combines several family-name elements; depending on the line, this may reflect a dit name, the joining of two surnames, or a more recent civil-status development. A patronymic formation of this kind shows how an older personal name could develop into a family name. Pion-Fontaine is a compound or hyphenated surname. For a particular family line, early records can show whether this form was long established or resulted from the joining of two surnames later in the family's history. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “pion fontaine”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Pjon-fon-tèn/pjɔ̃fɔ̃tɛn/