Fausto
Fausto is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 33 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 330.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200668 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 2,885people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,885 boys have been named Fausto in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 68 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 2000s alone account for 19%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Fausto | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 16 | |
| 1920s | 104 | |
| 1930s | 105 | |
| 1940s | 88 | |
| 1950s | 120 | |
| 1960s | 163 | |
| 1970s | 275 | |
| 1980s | 446 | |
| 1990s | 529 | |
| 2000s | 539 | |
| 2010s | 352 | |
| 2020s | 148 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Fausto was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Fausto
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Guillermopeak 1998
- Gonzalopeak 2000
- Ubaldopeak 2003
- Lazaropeak 2004
- Baltazarpeak 2001
- Efrenpeak 2007
- Horaciopeak 2001
- Marcellpeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.