Faustino
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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.
How popular is Faustino around the world?
In the United States, Faustino is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Argentina, 750 newborns were given the name Faustino in 2024.
Faustino is on the official records of the United States, Argentina, Montevideo, Spain, Chile and Brazil.
United States
on record
In the United States, Faustino is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Faustino has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Argentina
1 in 880
In Argentina, 750 newborns were given the name Faustino in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Montevideo City
1 in 1,8002011
In Montevideo, 14 boys named Faustino were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Spain
1 in 5,600
In Spain, 8,038 residents are named Faustino, the 309th most common name among men, with a mean age of 66.4 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Chile
1 in 16,000
In Chile, 11 boys were registered as Faustino in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Brazil
1 in 59,000
At the 2022 census, 3,540 people in Brazil were named Faustino, ranked 3,478th, with a median age of 63.
Among people named Faustino living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Mexico City City
last on record 2021
Faustino is not on the 2022 record for Mexico City, where small counts are withheld at source.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
South Australia
last on record 1977
Faustino is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Faustino deep dive
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