Fust
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A strong musty smell; mustiness
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fʌst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fust is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 823K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fust itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 named Fuest, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fuest in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A strong musty smell; mustiness.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Fust is read(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.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 nameDeutscher 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fust counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Fuest | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 76K | listed | Fust | 87 |
| CH Switzerland | 460 | 1 in 18K | 460 | Fust | 32 |
| US United States | 404 | 1 in 823K | 439 | Fust | 128 |
| SE Sweden | 66 | 1 in 155K | 66 | Fust | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Fust | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, cask (e.g. containing beer)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, neuter of fus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, beam
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Fustb. 1400DEGerman printer (1400–1466)
- Herbert Fustb. 1899DEGerman politician (1899-1974)
- Bernhard Fustb. 1910CHSwiss virologist
- Horst Fustb. 1930DEGerman journalist (1930–2003)
- Walter Fustb. 1941CHSwiss entpreneur
- John Fustb. 1972CACanadian ice hockey player
- Leon Fustb. 2003DEGerman footballer
- Christina FustJohann Fust's only daughter
- Jakob Fustmayor
- Richard FustEnglish politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 460 | #2,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 439 | #51,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 422 | #47,308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 404 | #51,512 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 66 | #10,052 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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).
- How do you pronounce Fust?
- A machine transcription gives /fʌst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fust have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Fuest in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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 Congo - Kinshasa 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.
What do you want to know about Fust?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fustThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fust”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.