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faust Name Meaning and History

  1. German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and French (Alsace-Lorraine): from Middle High German fust ‘fist’, presumably a nickname for a strong or pugnacious person or for someone with a club hand or other deformity of the hand.
  2. German and French (Alsace-Lorraine): from a personal name (Latin Faustus, meaning ‘fortunate’, ‘lucky’, a derivative of favere ‘to favor’). This was borne by at least one Christian martyr.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of faust Families in the US in 1920
Number of faust families
 324-645
 109-323		 1-108
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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