Feist

Feist is the 9,117th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,443 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 86,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,443
Rank: 9,117th
How common: 1 in 86,800
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German surname for stout people; see feist (“fat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Feist described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Feist

Feist (born 1976)Canadian singer

People named Feist with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Feist

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.