Given name
Fausta
“a lucky lady; one who is fortunate”
Fausta is used as a given name. One Italian interpretation is “a lucky lady; one who is fortunate.”
Original ItalianFaustina
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “a lucky lady; one who is fortunate.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fausta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 5 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 girls is 5 in 1931. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 846 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fausta’s family of names
In Italian usage, Fausta has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Faustina. Fausta has a related form in Faustina. Fausta has a related form in Faustine.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Faustinavariant · Italian, Spanish
- Faustinevariant
- Fawsteenevariant
- Fawsteenavariant
- Fawstynevariant
- Fawstynavariant
- Fawstinevariant
- Fawstinavariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fausta
- Fausta MorgantiCaptain Regent of San Marino (1944-2021)
- FaustaEmpress consort of Constans II of the Byzantine Empire630
- Fausta of Cyzicusearly 4th century Roman saint298–311
- Fausta LabiaItalian operatic soprano (1870-1935)
- Fausta CialenteItalian novelist and journalist1898–1994
- Fausta GaraviniItalian writerborn 1938
- Fausta QuintavallaItalian javelin throwerborn 1959
- Fausta of Sirmiummother of Anastasia of Sirmium
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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