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The FOUST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,145 2726 0.004 45
United States (1880 census) 3,315 1854 0.007 66
Change since 1880 +8830 -872 -0.003 -21
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 8 31284 0 0
Top States for FOUST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,156 1254 0.009 94
North Carolina 1,104 1132 0.014 137
Tennessee 1,084 824 0.019 191
Ohio 1,049 1317 0.009 92
Indiana 747 1006 0.012 123
Top States for FOUST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,084 824 0.019 191
North Carolina 1,104 1132 0.014 137
Indiana 747 1006 0.012 123
Montana 88 1314 0.010 98
Pennsylvania 1,156 1254 0.009 94

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FOUST live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOUST represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOUST in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOUST by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOUST

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOUST surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FOUST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 149 1.23
Mixed Race 148 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 62 0.51
Asian/Pacific 43 0.35
White (Caucasian) 10,675 87.9
Black/African American 1,068 8.79

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FOUST surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FOUST in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FOUST.

Similar names to FOUST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOUST.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FOUST

The following words are slight variants of FOUST that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.