Faustine

[Swimmingwiththesharks]

Thoughts on this name for a girl?

Not a fan. Sorry.

Are you French? Not sure it works in anglophone country. It’s also quite Middle Aged.

Fusty for short ?

Please don’t .

i love it!

Is that some sort of industrial machinery

No

If you live in France then definitely yes! If not, you could but you’ll be sick of people and their unwanted comments….

No.

Reminds me of the opera Faust about a dirty pervy old man making a deal with the devil to get off with young girls.

Yes - my immediate thought was Faustian as in a "Faustian bargain"

My very first thought after reading the name, was ‘Poor child. It will be ridiculed through school with bad jokes about smelling fausty, moldy or musty’.

I apologise if I cause offence, but it’s a definite no from me.

Hmmm, if you are French then fine. If you are not and you live in the uk then please don’t. As others have said, poor girl will likely get Fusty as a NN..

I love it. I don't think it's middle aged. A Faustine would be early 20s I think. It has gone down in popularity since then, though.

I’m not sure where you live op but if you’re in Scotland she would be called fushty, really not a nice nickname

Thank god I've never heard this before, means no child I've met has been lumbered with this awful name.

I imagine any poor kids who did draw the short straw were counting down the years to change their name by depole .

Their is a Saint Faustina…u could shorten it to Tina

Good grief, think of a kid into an adult
just no

Terrible

No it’s awful. Justine is perhaps an alternative?
As an aside, Dr Faustus is an excellent play and has my favourite ever stage direction: enter a devil, dressed as a woman, with fireworks

You can’t be serious surely? As in Faust? Didn’t he have a pact with the devil?

I think it's lovely, but possibly a difficult name for a child in the UK.
What about
Celine
Capucine
Amandine
Leontine
Pascaline

I know Capucine is supposedly very swish but it always just sounds like a monkey to me.

Sounds medieval

No
The amount of mispronouncation would be annoying let alone sounds like a industrial gadget.

How are those any better for a ‘child in the UK’? They’re as bad as OPs apart from maybe celine