Faustino
Meaning
from the Roman cognomen Faustinus, a derivative of Faustus, "auspicious, lucky"; the name of several early saints
The story
Faustino stacks a diminutive on good fortune: the Roman cognomen Faustinus derived from Faustus, "auspicious, lucky," and the source notes it was carried by several early saints. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese all inherited the form, and it stayed in Latin American rotation long after the Roman Empire stopped issuing cognomina. Brazil's census counted 3,540 men named Faustino, most born before 1980, 875 of them in the 1950s alone. The United States record runs from 13 boys in the 1900s through every decade since without a single published gap: 371 in the 1970s, 407 in the 1980s, 503 in the 1990s, 427 in the 2000s, 257 in the 2010s, 108 so far this decade. An unbroken hundred-and-twenty-year American line, never fashionable, never gone. A lucky name that never needed a chart to prove it.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Faustino has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
3,540 people · the #3,478 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 58,824 · median age 63
Among people named Faustino living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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