Tracing the Fausts Family Name

Seen on a gravestone or a census line, Fausts usually leads back to Faust. Its meaning, shared with Faust, is “Fist”. The extra ending in Fausts is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Faust's family. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Foust.

There is no single Fausts family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete Fausts report, with a museum-style coat of arms.