Gast Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

The Gast last name has French roots. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “dweller near an uncultivated field; one who came from a distance, a stranger”.

Surname origin

Landscape names of this kind told neighbours where a family's house stood.

Surname statistics

4,612 Americans were listed as Gast in the 2010 census. 957 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Gast name at birth. There were 44 such births in the 1890s and 97 in the 1990s.

Heraldry and the Gast name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Gast family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

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