Faas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈfɑz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle Dutch faesche, from Middle French fasce, from Latin fascia.
- NLNetherlands1 in 11K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 187K
- USUnited States1 in 304K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,594 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Dutchfaesche(measured from records)
- Middle Frenchfasce(measured from records)
- Latinfascia(measured from records)
From Middle Dutch faesche, from Middle French fasce, from Latin fascia.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,594 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Faas | 9 |
| US United States | 1,096 | 1 in 304K | 1.1K | Faas | 33 |
| AR Argentina | 56 | 1 in 812K | 56 | Faas | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 19 | 1 in 617K | 19 | — | — |
1,594 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Faas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Dutch and Flemish: from the old Germanic personal name Fastred , composed of the elements fast firm, resolute + red counsel. The Blessed Fastred of Cavamiez (d. 1163) was born in Hainault; he was a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux.
as a word
In Dutch, fess
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)- Robert Faasb. 1889DEassociation football player (1889-1914)
- Henri Faasb. 1926NLDutch journalist and writer (1926–1990)
- Horst Faasb. 1933DEGerman photojournalist (1933–2012)
- Ekbert Faasb. 1938DEGerman anglist and americanist (1938-)
- Hanspeter Faasb. 1954DEGerman gardener
- Ellis Faasb. 1962NLDutch make-up artist (1962–2020)
- Thorsten Faasb. 1975DEGerman political scientist
- Linde Faasb. 1985NLDutch artist (born 1985)
- Clotilde FaasInstitut d'histoire; orcid: 0000-0003-3893-9024
- Daniel FaasGBresearcher
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.6K | #902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,326 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 56 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 19 | #49,455 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Faas mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Dutch faesche, from Middle French fasce, from Latin fascia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Faas?
- In the etymology graph, Bonifaz, Servatius and Bonifacy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Faas?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɑz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Faas have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Faas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faas.
- Where is Faas most common?
- Faas is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Faas?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,594 people named Faas in 2007, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faasThe 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, “Faas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.