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Fausto

#3,465 in 2025Boys' name

Happy, through Fausto

Fausto has been given to 2,918 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #3,465 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Fausto, 2025

1 in 100,000

Fausto over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fausto: meaning, origin, and history

Happy, through Fausto

Latin

What Fausto means

Fausto belongs to the name family reached through Fausto → Fausto. Its meaning is “happy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Fausto is used in Cebuano, Italian and Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Fausto comes through Spanish Fausto, Italian Fausto and Latin Faustus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fausto.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Fausto is pronounced /ˈfaws.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,918 boys were recorded with the name Fausto between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,347 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,593 in 2020 to #3,465 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,102 in 2015 to #3,465 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fausto?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,465
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fausto 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 2025 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fausto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Faustos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fausto was born before 1992 — so the typical Fausto is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,605
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (539).

Is Fausto 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
+10
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,128
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−363
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.5%
Peak was 2006 (68)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,347
1983

Spellings of Fausto

Fausto is not the most common spelling — Faustino is, with 31.6% against Fausto's 24.2%.

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 Fausto is used

Across 1910–2025, Fausto was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 38,615 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 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. Fausto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fausto around the world

Where Fausto 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.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • France
    1925–2024
    #6,629
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–1987
    #464
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Fausto

People whose public names include Fausto, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fausto in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Fausto. Linked forms have their own page here.

Faustyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Fausto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,465
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,128
Best rank ever
#1,347
1983
Peak year
2006
68 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,918
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Fausto

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

FaustinoCristoModestoAugustoJustoEvaristoErnestoChristoSistoErastoFaustFaustinKristoTaistoHristoOrestoCastoCalistoQuistoHernestoCallistoArnestoEbaristo

Names with a curve like Fausto

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fausto, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BaltazarGabinoArtemioVincenteUbaldoCarlinRobinsonMarcellHoracioMaximinoQuentonServando

Sibling names for Fausto

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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