Given name & surname
Faust
“having good luck”
Faust is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “having good luck.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “having good luck.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faust through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 71
- 71 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1930. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 122 as a first name in 2020; 15,035 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Faust’s family of names
In German usage, Faust shares a linguistic root with the Lithuanian form FAUSTAS. Faust has a related form in Fausto. Faust has a related form in Faustino.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Faust has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
6 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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