What We Know About the Brust Surname

In Wikidata, Brust is listed as a German surname. Brust turns up in national name statistics on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Brust, so we research it family by family rather than guess.
• In the 2010 US Census, 2,976 Americans gave Brust as their last name (rank 10,729). Between 1891 and 2000, 147 babies born in France were registered as Brust, with the most births in 1901–1910.

Heraldry and the Brust name

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Brust coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line. Research your Brust family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.