Faustyn
From Latin, the name means "lucky" or "auspicious". Yet luck has run thin for the name itself: only 87 men in Poland carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Faustyn Pronunciation
Faustyn is pronounced fah-OOS-tihn (/faˈustɨn/).
What Faustyn means
Where Faustyn comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Faustyn comes from Latin. The root is the adjective faustus, which meant lucky or auspicious. Roman families built names on it, first Faustus, then Faustinus, and Polish reshaped that into Faustyn. The word pointed to good fortune and a favorable sign.
The name has always travelled with its feminine forms. Faustina belonged to two empresses of the Antonine dynasty in Rome, both of them named for the same idea of good luck. Centuries later the Polish variant Faustyna attached itself to Helena Kowalska, the Kraków nun canonized in 2000 as Saint Faustina. Through her the female form now reaches far more people than Faustyn does.
Faustyn keeps his name-day on 15 February, shared with Faustinus of Brescia, an early martyr. The meaning has not strayed from the Latin. In Polish it reads szczęśliwy, lucky, and it holds across all three forms: Faustyn, Faustyna, Faustina.
When Faustyn celebrates name day
Faustyn appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 15 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Faustyn
1 in 245358 men in Poland is named Faustyn. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3772 among male names.
Faustyn as a middle name
Faustyn is a first name for 87 men in Poland and a middle name for another 148, a 37/63 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 578th, between Donald (148) and Mert (148).
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#576 Dezyderiusz148
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#577 Donald148
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#578 Faustyn148
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#579 Mert148
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#580 Phillip148