THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Fausto
Fausto is recorded as a male given name in Cebuano. The source gives a linguistic connection through Spanish, specifically the form Fausto.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From Spanish Fausto, from Italian Fausto, from Latin Faustus.
a male given name from Latin
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SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name
Wiktionary: Fausto (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Fausto in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Fausto
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Agusto·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Casto♂Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Erusto·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Faustino♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Justo♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Augosto·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Augusto♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Faisal♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
What rhymes with Fausto?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Fausto further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Fausto (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Fausto (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.