Last Name FAUST

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, German, Polish, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	2,108 (2000 US census)	2,068 (1990 US census)

Count	15,799 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

86.8%, or 13714 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
9.91%, or 1566 total occurrences, as black,
0.41%, or 65 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.36%, or 57 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.94%, or 149 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.59%, or 251 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.