Given name & surname
Faustine
“a lucky lady; one who is fortunate”
Faustine is a variant of Fausta. One Italian interpretation is “a lucky lady; one who is fortunate.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Faustine is a variant of Fausta. One Italian interpretation is “a lucky lady; one who is fortunate.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Faustine is a variant of Fausta. An origin associated with Fausta is Italian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Faustine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 362
- 0 boys · 362 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 17 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 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 376 as a first name in 2020; 123 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.
Faustine’s family of names
In French usage, Faustine has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Faustina. Faustine has a related form in Fausta. In French usage, Faustine has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Faustyna.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Faustine has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
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 Faustine
- Faustine MerretFrench windsurferborn 1978
- Faustine FotsoCameroonian computer scientist and lawyerborn 1965
- Faustine ClapierFrench fencer (born 2001)
- Faustine NdugulileTanzanian Member of Parliament1969–2024
- Faustine RobertFrench association football playerborn 1994
- Faustine NoëlFrench para badminton playerborn 1993
- Faustine MussaTanzanian distance runnerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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