Fausto
Fausto was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,465 among boys’ names; 2,918 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,500 Americans named Fausto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fausto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fausto mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Fausto is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “happy” (faustus).
Latin Faustus, a Roman cognomen, and name of early Christian saints, from faustus (“happy”). Fausto has identical meaning in Italian.
/ˈfaws.to/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fausto?
#3,465 among boys’ names, 2025
Fausto fell from #3,102 in 2015 to #3,465 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born held at 19.3 per million.
68 babies in 2006, the peak
Fausto peaked in 2006, when 68 boys were given it, #1,976 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,465 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,475 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,647 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,292 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,938 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,593 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,927 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,916 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,263 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,079 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,102 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,723 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,521 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,015 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,263 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,837 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,359 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,558 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,484 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,976 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,304 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 62 | #1,957 | 31.2 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,320 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,949 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,986 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 46 | #2,178 | 23.4 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,072 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,852 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,839 | 27.1 |
| 1996 | 63 | #1,578 | 33.3 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,844 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,050 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 63 | #1,473 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,579 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,628 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 59 | #1,468 | 28.7 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,737 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 53 | #1,450 | 27.7 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,544 | 24.6 |
| 1986 | 44 | #1,515 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,455 | 24.9 |
| 1984 | 48 | #1,371 | 26.6 |
| 1983 | 48 | #1,347 | 26.8 |
| 1982 | 44 | #1,445 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,706 | 19.0 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,552 | 21.9 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,471 | 23.8 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,934 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,718 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,016 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,966 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,072 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,070 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,573 | 18.5 |
| 1971 | 34 | #1,474 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,814 | 12.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,348 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,055 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,990 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,913 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,300 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,494 | 14.1 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,141 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,992 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,089 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,582 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,998 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,296 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,888 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,685 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,046 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,259 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,128 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,186 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,170 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,901 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,379 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,858 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,190 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,591 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,452 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,950 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,704 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,330 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,393 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,380 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,209 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,708 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,980 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,866 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,092 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,603 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,703 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,602 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,578 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,369 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,196 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,987 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,623 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,641 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,077 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,258 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,006 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,305 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,044 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,382 | 5.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,124 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,549 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fausto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fausto has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fausto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fausto, and how old are they?
2,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,918 Americans ever recorded as Fausto. The median Fausto alive today is 30 years old; half are between 18 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 8,708 people named Fausto (15 women and girls, 8,693 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 168 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 347 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 747 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 789 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 416 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fausto born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,285 | 2.5× |
Where Fausto is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fausto is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fausto with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fausto
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fausto and names like it
- Compare Fausto and GuillermoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFausto peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fausto since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Fausto: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Fausto.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fausto alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.