Given name & surname
Faustin
“having good luck”
Faustin is a variant of Faust. One Latin interpretation is “having good luck.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Faustin is a variant of Faust. One Latin interpretation is “having good luck.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Faustin is a variant of Faust. An origin associated with Faust is Latin.
Explained through its name family
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
Faustin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 70
- 70 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 7 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 428 as a first name in 2020; 1,280 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.
Faustin’s family of names
In French usage, Faustin has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Faustino. Faustin has a related form in Faust. In French usage, Faustin has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form FAUSTYN.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Faustin
- Faustin-Archange TouadéraPresident of the Central African Republic since 2016born 1957
- Faustin Soulouquepresident and emperor of Haiti (1782-1867)
- Faustin TwagiramunguRwandan politician (1945–2023)
- Faustin BirindwaCongolese politician (1943-1999)
- Faustin E. WirkusMonarch of Haiti1897–1948
- Faustin NgabuCongolese (D.R.C.) Roman Catholic prelate, emeritus bishop of Goma1935–2025
- Faustin LinyekulaCongolese dancerborn 1974
- Faustin HélieFrench jurist (1799-1884)
- Faustin Ambassa NdjodoCameroonian catholic archbishopborn 1964
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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