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Faust Name Meaning
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.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Faust
Name Distribution of Faust Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Faust families
 324 - 645  109 - 323 |
 1 - 108  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Faust families
|
20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Faust census records
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Faust Family Origin
Faust Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Faust
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Faust Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Faust census records
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Faust Civil War Service Records
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