Faustyna
From Latin, where the root means "fortunate" or "lucky". It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 4,000 women carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Faustyna Pronunciation
Faustyna is pronounced fah-oos-TIH-nah (/fausˈtɨna/).
What Faustyna means
Where Faustyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Faustyna comes straight from Latin, from the adjective faustus, meaning favorable or lucky. To Roman ears the word marked a good omen. The name means fortunate, szczęśliwa in Polish, and it wears that meaning openly rather than hiding behind later legend.
The Romans already used Faustina. Two empresses bore it, wives in the family of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. Coins still carry their profiles. Its masculine counterpart is Faustyn, the same root turned toward a boy.
Poland knows one Faustyna above the rest: Helena Kowalska, who took the name Faustyna as a nun and was later canonized. Her fame gave the name a second life. Still, on a class register or an official form at the urząd, Faustyna reads first as what it always said: lucky.
When Faustyna celebrates name day
Faustyna appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 5 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Faustyna
1 in 5948 women in Poland is named Faustyna. 3,790 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #543 among female names.
Faustyna's popularity over time
90 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #259 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Faustyna is most popular
Faustyna is most popular in Subcarpathian, 140% above the national average (81 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+108%) and Pomeranian (+38%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 70% and 67% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian81 girls born+140%
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Lesser Poland132 girls born+108%
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Pomeranian57 girls born+38%
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Greater Poland61 girls born+1%
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Opole12 girls born−7%
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Podlaskie17 girls born−8%
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Silesian55 girls born−14%
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Masovian83 girls born−16%
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Warmian-Masurian15 girls born−25%
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Świętokrzyskie11 girls born−29%
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Lublin18 girls born−37%
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Łódź21 girls born−41%
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Lower Silesian20 girls born−55%
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Lubusz5 girls born−64%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian10 girls born−67%
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West Pomeranian7 girls born−70%
Faustyna as a middle name
Faustyna is a first name for 3,790 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9,032, a 30/70 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 116th, between Milena (9,194) and Celina (8,843).
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#114 Brygida9,311
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#115 Milena9,194
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#116 Faustyna9,032
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#117 Celina8,843
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#118 Karina8,817