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Faust

Boys' name

German surname transferred into given-name use

Faust has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Faust, 1930

1 in 445,000

Faust over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Faust: meaning, origin, and history

German surname transferred into given-name use

German surname transfer

What Faust means

Faust is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Faust is used in Literature.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfaʊ̯st/ for Faust.

The naming story behind Faust

Faust is a given name adopted from German surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 boys were recorded with the name Faust between 1914 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,809 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Faust?

Faust had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1930, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1930
1 in 445,000
5 of 2,223,243 births
Among boys only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1930
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
308,208 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Faust sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1930 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 308,208 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faust. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fausts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Faust was born before 1923 — so the typical Faust is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
66.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 66.2% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Faust rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (9)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,809
1917

Spellings of Faust

Faust is not the most common spelling — Fausto is, with 60.0% against Faust's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Faust is used

Across 1910–2025, Faust was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Faust has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Faust around the world

Where Faust ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1904–2022
    #6,723
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Faust by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,809
1917
Peak year
1917
9 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Faust

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Faust

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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