Fuest
surname · Latin script
/fʊəst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fuest is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 76Kas Fust(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 823Kas Fust
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 72K
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 Fuest 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 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fust in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fuest 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 | 460as Fust | 1 in 18K | 460 | Fust | 32 |
| US United States | 404as Fust | 1 in 823K | 439 | Fust | 128 |
| SE Sweden | 66as Fust | 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Irmgard Fuestb. 1903DEGerman judge, politician and lawyer (1903-1980)
- Robert Fuestb. 1927GBBritish film director (1927–2012)
- Clemens Fuestb. 1968DEGerman economist
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Fuest?
- A machine transcription gives /fʊəst/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Fuest 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 it is most often spelled fuest.
- How common is the name Fuest?
- 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 Fuest?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fuestThe 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, “Fuest”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.