Name Awesome

Gust

Boys' name

Short form of Gustaaf

Gust has been given to 1,871 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Gust, 1984

1 in 581,000

Gust over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gust: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Gustaaf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gust means

Gust is a short form of Gustaaf.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gust is used in Dutch.

Origin, language, and formation

Gust is used in East Central German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gustaaf, August and Gustav.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,871 boys were recorded with the name Gust between 1880 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1923; its best national rank was #330 in 1887.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gust?

Gust had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 581,000
6 of 3,488,451 births
Among boys only
1 in 301,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
403,003 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gust sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 403,003 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gust. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gusts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gust was born before 1923 — so the typical Gust is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (446).

Is Gust rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (59)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#330
1887

Spellings of Gust

Gust is not the most common spelling — Guy is, with 26.1% against Gust's 0.54%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gust is used

Across 1910–2025, Gust was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 111,358 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 50,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gust has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gust by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#330
1887
Peak year
1923
59 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
1,871
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gust

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GussGustavGusGussieGustaveTrustGustafGustaboGustinGustavoGustavusAugustFaustGusterGustyGustasJustGustieGustonGustauo

Sibling names for Gust

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Gust

Top names of 1923, Gust's peak yearThe 1920s in fullOther names that peaked in 1887Boys' names starting with G