How Many People Are Named Fausto?

2,508

people named Fausto are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 136,277 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,918 babies named Fausto in Social Security records from 1915 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,818

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#2,166

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Peak Year

2006

68 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of FAUSTUS.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Fausto in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Fausto alive today is about 31 years old, and 51% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 42 in 2025.

Under 30 1,268
50.6%
30 to 59 1,027
40.9%
60 and over 213
8.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Fausto first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 2006, to 68 babies. In 2025, 33 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Fausto has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,347, in 1983. In 2025 it ranked #3,465.

Boys
Rank in 2025#3,465
Best rank#1,347 (1983)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,243 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Fausto alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Fausto were born in California than in any other state: about 798 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Fausto was given 4.2 times as often in California, 2.7 times in Texas and 2.4 times in New York.

California 798
Texas 317
New York 246
Arizona 45
Florida 42
Massachusetts 5
New Jersey 5

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