Faustino
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Faustino is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as Faustinas, a deriv. of Faustus; see Faust 2), borne in honour of various early saints, including a 2nd-cent. mar¬ tyr of Lombardy and a 4th-cent. bishop of Brescia, sup¬ posedly his descendant.
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2.8K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Faustinas, a deriv. of Faustus; see Faust 2), borne in honour of various early saints, including a 2nd-cent. mar¬ tyr of Lombardy and a 4th-cent. bishop of Brescia, sup¬ posedly his descendant.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Faustino is read(measured from records)
Faustino is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish65%
Latín Faustinus, patronímico de Faustus: 'fausto, feliz, próspero'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese18%
Faustinas, a deriv. of Faustus; see Faust 2), borne in honour of various early saints, including a 2nd-cent. mar¬ tyr of Lombardy and a 4th-cent. bishop of Brescia, sup¬ posedly his descendant.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English9.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Faustino in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Faustino counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Faustino | 94 |
| PE Peru | #390 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Faustino | 52 |
| AR Argentina | #472 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 750 | Faustino | 67 |
| ES Spain | #556 | 8,038 | 1 in 6.2K | 8.7K | Faustino | 125 |
| US United States | — | 7,365 | 1 in 45K | 7.3K | Faustino | 240 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #194 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Faustino | 15 |
| HN Honduras | #256 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Faustino | 11 |
| PY Paraguay | #348 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Faustino | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,656 | 1 in 2K | 1.7K | — | 21 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Faustino is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma italiana de Faustinus.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Domingo Faustino Sarmientob. 1811ARArgentinian politician and writer (1811-1888)
- Faustin E. Wirkusb. 1897USnot in their usual nameMonarch of Haiti
- Faustino Oramasb. 1911CUCuban musician
- Luis Posada Carrilesb. 1928VEnot in their usual nameCuban terrorist and CIA agent (1928–2018)
- Faustino Imbalib. 1956GWForeign and Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
- Faustino Rupérezb. 1956ESSpanish racing cyclist
- Faustino Asprillab. 1969COColombian footballer
- Faustino Reyesb. 1975ESboxer
- Marcos Rojob. 1990ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player
- Faustino Orob. 2013ARArgentine chess player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.7K | #277 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8K | #633 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.3K | #3,025 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.7K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 750 | #189 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 269 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 269 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #3,025 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 9 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Faustino mean, and where does it come from?
- Faustinas, a deriv. of Faustus; see Faust 2), borne in honour of various early saints, including a 2nd-cent. mar¬ tyr of Lombardy and a 4th-cent. bishop of Brescia, sup¬ posedly his descendant. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- Is Faustino a male or female name?
- Faustino is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Faustino?
- In the etymology graph, Faustinus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Faustino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Faustino in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faustino.
- Where is Faustino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Faustino is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Faustino?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,038 people named Faustino, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Faustino compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Faustino is the 194th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Faustino” — the 194th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.