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    The surname Fait

    A Czech surname, carried by 623 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F300

    Fait: #35,993 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Fait #35,993, 623 people Fait: #35,993 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Fait #35,993, 623 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fait is more common than 77.8% of them.

    Origin

    Czech origin

    Various origins: * A variant of German Veit. * Borrowed from Czech or Polish Fait, both from the German surname. * Perhaps from an obsolete English personal name derived from Anglo-Norman afaitie (“accomplished, skillful”).

    One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 623 people named Fait in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 495,579 Americans. That is down 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 672.

    #35,993
    rank among US surnames
    623
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #32,302)

    Who is named Fait

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Fait identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Fait

    Fait has the Soundex code F300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F300.

    Other Czech surnames

    All 96 Czech surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fait come from?
    Various origins: * A variant of German Veit. * Borrowed from Czech or Polish Fait, both from the German surname. * Perhaps from an obsolete English personal name derived from Anglo-Norman afaitie (“accomplished, skillful”).
    How common is the surname Fait?
    623 people in the United States had the surname Fait in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 495,579 Americans. It ranked 35,993rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fait?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Fait identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Fait getting more or less common?
    Less common. 672 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 623 in 2010, down 7.3%.