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    The surname Feast

    An English nickname surname, carried by 326 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F230

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Feast is more common than 62% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either Middle English fist (“fist”), perhaps a nickname for an aggressive person, or from Middle English fest (“fart”). The Baháʼí sense is a calque of Calque of Persian ضیافت (ziyâfat).

    Feast is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 326 people named Feast in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 947,072 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 307.

    #61,585
    rank among US surnames
    326
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #61,207)

    Who is named Feast

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

    50% of people named Feast identified as Black (not Hispanic), 45% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 50%
    • White (not Hispanic) 45%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Feast

    Feast has the Soundex code F230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F230.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Feast come from?
    From either Middle English fist (“fist”), perhaps a nickname for an aggressive person, or from Middle English fest (“fart”). The Baháʼí sense is a calque of Calque of Persian ضیافت (ziyâfat).
    How common is the surname Feast?
    326 people in the United States had the surname Feast in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 947,072 Americans. It ranked 61,585th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Feast?
    In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Feast identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 45% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Feast?
    Feast is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Feast getting more or less common?
    More common. 307 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 326 in 2010, up 6.2%.