Family name origins & meanings
- German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and French (Alsace-Lorraine) : from Middle High German fūst ‘fist’, presumably a nickname for a strong or pugnacious person or for someone with a club hand or other deformity of the hand.
- German and French (Alsace-Lorraine) : from a personal name (Latin Faustus, meaning ‘fortunate’, ‘lucky’, a derivative of favere ‘to favor’). This was borne by at least one Christian martyr.