Fust

Locally spelled Fuest in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Fust is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English54%

  A strong musty smell; mustiness.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German31%

  Übername zu mhd./mnd. vūst 'Faust', wohl für einen Faustkämpfer oder jemanden mit gefürchteter Faust; Bearer count 532.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Fust is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Füst

• Russian surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

  Also written Фуст

• Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Egypt

  Also written Füst

• Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, Switzerland

  Also written Füst

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Fust is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In frm, third-person singular past historic of estre

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Dutch, cask (e.g. containing beer)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, neuter of fus

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Catalan, beam

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Johann Fustb. 1400DEGerman printer (1400–1466)
• Herbert Fustb. 1899DEGerman politician (1899-1974)
• Christina FustJohann Fust's only daughter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Fust mean, and where does it come from?

A strong musty smell; mustiness. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Fust?

Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Fust in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fust. After it come Switzerland, United States, Sweden and India; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Fust most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fust is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Fust?

In Switzerland, the national register counted 460 people named Fust in 2024, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.