# Fausto (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fausto/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,918 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,918 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,264 |
| 2012 | 38 | 3,017 |
| 2013 | 30 | 3,523 |
| 2014 | 44 | 2,725 |
| 2015 | 37 | 3,103 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,080 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,265 |
| 2018 | 27 | 3,920 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,930 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,597 |
| 2021 | 27 | 3,942 |
| 2022 | 36 | 3,294 |
| 2023 | 31 | 3,649 |
| 2024 | 33 | 3,477 |
| 2025 | 33 | 3,466 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |

## People named Fausto

- Fausto Vera, Argentine footballer
- Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian footballer and manager (1905-1939)
- Fausto Cleva, American conductor
- Fausto Trávez Trávez, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic archbishop
- Fausto De Amicis, Australian soccer player
- Fausto Reinaga, Bolivian author and writer (1906-1994)
- Fausto Grillo, Brazilian association football player
- Fausto Silva, Brazilian TV presenter
- Fausto Poli, Catholic cardinal and art collector (1581-1653)
- Fausto Sarli, fashion designer (1927-2010)
- Faustus of Riez, Bishop of Riez
- Faustus of Mileve, fourth-century Manichaean bishop

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.