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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.