Latin origin
Source-reportedMeaning: “favourable, benevolent, auspicious, happy, fortunate”
Latin Faustus, a Roman cognomen, and name of early Christian saints, from faustus (“happy”). Fausto has identical meaning in Italian.
Sources for this account (9)
- Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Greek Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Spanish Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- French Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Polish Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Portuguese Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Russian Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Turkish Wiktionary: FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Wikipedia (it): FaustoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

