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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the personal name Fausto, Latin Faustus ‘fortunate’, ‘lucky’, a derivative of favere ‘favor’. See also Faust. Fausto is quite common today as an Italian personal name, but was not so used until the Renaissance.

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