Faucett Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Faucett, so the heraldry linked to Fawcett is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

Search old registers for Faucett and you will soon meet Fawcett too. At root, the name means “Multicoloured hillside”.

The two spellings differ in a small detail: Faucett has “u” where Fawcett has “w”. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Fawcitt. The 2010 census count for Faucett in the United States was 2,274, good for rank 13,397.

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