My last name is Fant and my family is mostly Scottish and Irish, can anyone help me find a family crest?

I want to find my family crest for a tattoo possibly, so any help is appreciated

My last name is Fant and my family is mostly Scottish and Irish, can anyone help me find a family crest?
There is no such thing as a family crest! A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. They were and are granted to an individual man. When a man is granted one all sons are entitled to obtain one with some differences. When a man dies only the oldest son was/is entitled to his father's.





Peddlers who sell them on the internet, at shopping malls, in airports, in magaines frequently are selling valid coats of arms but what isn't valid is they sell them like they belong to everyone with that particular surname and they don't. People who display walnut plaques, keychains, coffee mugs etc with a coat of arms on it are just displaying one that was granted to someone with their surname and probably isn't even related.





In many cases there was more than one man with the same surname, not all necessarily related that were each granted one, all different. 'No one peddler will have all of them. They don't need to in order to sell. The only time they will have more than one is if more than one man with the same surname from different national origins were granted one. Then they will have one of each and there might have been more. '=





I am furnishing you a link to the most authoritative source there is, The British College of Arms. If this is a school project, please print off the link and give to your teacher. Also feel free to give a copy of what I have posted here to your teacher.
Reply:First, I thought you might like to see the origin of your last name, its English:





Fant Name Meaning and History


1. English: from Old French enfant 鈥榗hild鈥? hence a nickname for someone of a childish (or childlike) disposition. This name arose when, in medieval England, Anglo-Norman French l鈥檈nfant was wrongly understood as le fant.


2. Italian: Venetian variant of Infante.





Second, before the needle gets anywhere close to you, I would recommend you do your own research on family crests vs. coats of arms. One of your ancestors might have been awarded one, if he was particularly valiant in a battle perhaps, but these just weren't meant for the entire family.





A quote from the Crest definition at Wikipedia (sourced below):


"There is a widespread misconception, due in part to Victorian stationers' marketing of engraved letterheads, that a crest and a coat of arms belong to everyone with the same family name; but usage by persons not descended from the original grantee constitutes usurpation. Bogus 'family crests' continue to be sold to the gullible by heraldic 'bucket shops.'"
Reply:Go to housofnames.com there is one there it says Fant is italian. The surname Fant is a common occupational name for person who was a foot soldier.
Reply:You might as well tattoo yourself with any old badge you fancy as the one supposedly for "your family" will have as much to do with you as that will!