Foust Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Foust and Faust are two spellings with one history. The family name meaning is “Fist”, the same as for Faust.

• The same family of names includes Fausts.
• Foust writes “o” in place of the “a” found in Faust, a common scribal difference.
• About 12,366 people in the United States were recorded as Foust in 2010, placing it 2,900 on the national list. That is enough to place it in the top 5,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

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