Fausto
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: happy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fausto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fausto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 43rd most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 572(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 932
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.7K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 572 (inferred from the name graph)
29,548 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
happy or fortunate
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Fausto is read(measured from records)
Fausto 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.
- Spanish61%
happy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latín Faustus: 'fausto, feliz, próspero, de buen agüero'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese14%
happy or fortunate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fausto 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Fausto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #137 | 29,548 | 1 in 572 | 30K | Fausto | 79 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 18 | Fausto | 83 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #43 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 932 | — | Fausto | 57 |
| BR Brazil | #901 | 10,934 | 1 in 19K | 13K | Fausto | 170 |
| PE Peru | #531 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Fausto | 70 |
| HN Honduras | #173 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Fausto | 25 |
29,548 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Fausto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal lat. Faustus, 'fausto, propizio'; con i diminutivi Faustino e Faustiano.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Ss. Faustino e Giovita, patroni di Brescia. dove il nome è frequente. Nartiri sotto Adriano; I.? febbraio. Da Paustiano, anzichè da Fosca, deriverei il cogn. friu- lano Foschiani; l'anormale riduzione del dittongo ai spiegherebbe colla analogia tra i due nomi; normale t invece la riduzione del nesso st = sc. Cfr. il toscano schiavo = sliavo, schiantare = stiantare, ecc.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Faustus.
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)
- Fausto Sozzinib. 1539CHItalian theologian
- Fausto Elhuyarb. 1755ESSpanish chemist
- Agustin Larab. 1897MXnot in their usual nameMexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros (1897–1970)
- Fausto Guerzonib. 1903ITItalian actor (1904–1967)
- Fausto Coppib. 1919ITItalian cyclist
- Fausto Tozzib. 1921ITItalian actor and screenwriter (1921-1978)
- Fausto Cercignanib. 1941ITItalian scholar, essayist and poet
- Fausto Xavier Aguilerab. 1949ECSebastián Diaz father (sebayayo)
- Fausto Parib. 1962ITItalian footballer (born 1962)
- Fausto Brizzib. 1968ITItalian film director, screenwriter and producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 30K | #84 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 13K | #1,785 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 11K | #1,604 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 51 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #1,604 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 32 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 18 | #547 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Fausto come from?
- happy or fortunate Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Fausto mean?
- In Spanish, happy
- In which country does Fausto have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Fausto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fausto.
- Where is Fausto most common?
- Fausto is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 572 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Fausto?
- A machine transcription gives /fausto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Fausto a male or female name?
- Fausto 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 Fausto?
- In the etymology graph, Faustus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Fausto?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 29,548 people named Fausto in 2024, about 1 in 572 residents.
- How common is Fausto compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Fausto is the 137th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faustoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fausto” — the 137th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.