Faustino
Masculine · “fortunate”
Faustino is built on the Latin word for lucky, and the Romans meant it seriously: faustus described something favored by the gods, blessed by good omen. It gave a Roman family name, then a run of early Christian saints, then the ordinary Spanish and Italian given name that reached American records with migration and peaked in 1933.
How old is the name Faustino?
Faustino first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Faustino alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 2,700 people named Faustino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Faustino most popular?
Faustino peaked in 1933, reaching #961 nationally. Today it ranks #5861, 4,900 places below that high. See the whole 1933 chart.
Where it comes from
From faustus to Faustino
The story of Faustino
Several early martyrs carried the name, and Saint Faustinus of Brescia gave it a firm place in northern Italy. Spanish and Italian naming kept it in ordinary use through the medieval and modern periods, and it is common in Mexico, the Philippines and southern Italy. American records show it rising with Italian and Mexican migration in the first third of the twentieth century and peaking in 1933. The German Faust legend, dramatized by Marlowe and then by Goethe, gave the root a second and much darker association in the English-speaking imagination, which has never attached to the Spanish and Italian name in its own countries.
Meaning
fortunate, favored, auspicious
Latin faustus means fortunate or auspicious, and it belongs to the vocabulary of Roman augury — a faustum omen was a favorable sign. Faustus and Faustinus were both used as Roman names, and the feminine Faustina was borne by two empresses. Faustino is the Italian and Spanish descendant. The legendary Doctor Faustus of the German story is unrelated in origin, though the coincidence of the name has colored how it sounds to English readers.
How the name formed
- faustus
- Faustinus
- Faustino
Related forms: Faustino · Faustino · Faustino · Faustin
Pronouncing Faustino
fow-STEE-noh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the au said as a single diphthong rhyming with how. English speakers who separate the vowels and say faw-oo-STEE-noh are adding a syllable the name does not have.
Nicknames for Faustino
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1908
- Most boys named
- 199259 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #961reached in 1933
- Change vs 2023
- +50.0%15 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Faustino in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Faustino in Spanish — same name
- Faustino in Italian — same name
- Faustino in Portuguese — same name
- Faustin in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Faustinos among us
people named Faustino are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was named Faustino
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Orvin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Faustino's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Orvin climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Orvin's path sketches the road Faustino is walking now.
Faustino sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Faustino beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Faustino in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a single positive word with a clean classical derivation.
- Tino is a warm, established short form in two large languages.
- The spelling is fully phonetic in Spanish and Italian alike.
- English readers may connect it to the Faust legend, which has nothing to do with it.
- Its American curve is early-twentieth-century, which places a bearer's generation.
- It is rare enough in the United States to need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Faustinos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Faustino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Faustino in 2025?
- Faustino ranks #5861 among US boy names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Faustino?
- About 1 in every 113,872 US boys born in 2025 was named Faustino — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Faustino with classmates?
- Faustino will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Faustino
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