Tracing the Fait Family Name

Fait shows up clearly in official surname statistics. The 2010 census count for Fait in the United States was 623, good for rank 35,993. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. 390 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Fait name at birth.

Fait coat of arms

Sharing the Fait name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname origin

We don't publish a meaning for Fait without a reliable source. Our researchers work it out from the records of each family.

Fait is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name. Want more than a summary? See the Fait family name pack.