Faustina
Fewer than two dozen women in Poland carry this Latin spelling, so most Poles have never met one. It comes from the Latin for "fortunate" or "lucky", and stands beside the more usual Polish form Faustyna.
Faustina Pronunciation
Faustina is pronounced fah-oos-TEE-nah (/fausˈtina/).
What Faustina means
Where Faustina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Faustina begins in Latin, in the word faustus, meaning fortunate or lucky. The Romans built family names from it, and the feminine Faustina passed to more than one empress. Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, wore it in the second century. That sense of being favored by fortune sat inside the name from the start.
In Poland the name gained new life through Faustyna Kowalska, the nun of the Divine Mercy. John Paul II canonized her in 2000, and her feast falls on 5 October. Many Polish girls carry the spelling Faustyna today, and the reason is usually her.
The cross-gender form is Faustyn, a name a boy might answer to when a class register is read. The old meaning holds steady. Faustina still means fortunate, lucky.
How many people are named Faustina
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Faustina. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9899 among female names.
Faustina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Faustina as a middle name
Faustina is a first name for 20 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1611th, between Eliane (20) and Felicjana (20).
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#1609 Danai20
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#1610 Eliane20
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#1611 Faustina20
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#1612 Felicjana20
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#1613 Francine20