Faß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a heavy/thick person; also a house name
Faß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 113Kas Fass(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 365Kas Fass
- ATAustria≈1 in 119Kas Fass
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 Faß 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
912 named Fass, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est., as Fass
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Fass in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)nickname for a heavy/thick person; also a house name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faß 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 912as Fass | 1 in 365K | 1.1K | Fass | 228 |
| DE Germany | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Fass | 75 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Fass | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 314K | listed | Fass | 51 |
| FR France | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 474K | 13 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Fass | 13 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Fass | 4 |
| DK Denmark | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Fass | 1 |
912 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Faß is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Formerly standard spelling of Fass which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. vaz 'Fass'; 'Fass'. 548 Belege insgesamt; mit Vass als Variante.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zum Böttcher/Küfer; aus 'Faß' abgeleitet. Bearer count: 674.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In gmw-cfr, barrel, vat, keg, especially for liquids
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, archaic spelling of Fass
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 Faßb. 1802DE(1802-1852)
- Bernd Faßb. 1940DEGerman badminton player
- Volker Faßb. 1952DEGerman association football player
- Dirk Faßb. 1955DEGerman archivist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Faß mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a heavy/thick person; also a house name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Faß?
- In the etymology graph, Fass is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Faß have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 912 people named Fass, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Faß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 912 people named Fass in 2010, about 1 in 365 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fa%C3%9FThe 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, “Faß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.