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Gustave

#7,854 in 2025Boys' name

Geats + staff, through Gustav

Gustave has been given to 5,430 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,854 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Gustave, 2025

1 in 332,000

Gustave over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gustave: meaning, origin, and history

Geats + staff, through Gustav

Germanic languages

What Gustave means

Gustave belongs to the name family reached through Gustave → Gustave → Gustav. Its meaning is “Geats + staff”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Gustave. French form of Swedish royal name Gustav; see Gustav for more.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Gustave (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Gustave is used in English and French. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Gustave comes through French Gustave.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gustav and Gustave.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Gustave is pronounced /ɡys.tav/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,430 boys were recorded with the name Gustave between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 1915; its best national rank was #217 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,416 in 2020 to #7,854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,679 in 2015 to #7,854 in 2025.

How common is Gustave?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,854
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gustave 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gustave. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gustaves were born

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

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,209
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1910s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (1,091).

Is Gustave 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
−1,567
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,438
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−175
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.6%
Peak was 1915 (152)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#217
1884

Spellings of Gustave

Gustave is not the most common spelling — Gustavo is, with 78.4% against Gustave's 10.5%.

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 Gustave is used

Across 1910–2025, Gustave was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 42,461 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 20,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 33,333
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 100,000

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. Gustave has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gustave around the world

Where Gustave ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    1900–2025
    #150
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gustave

People whose public names include Gustave, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gustave in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gustave. Linked forms have their own page here.

GustafGustavGustavoGustavusGöstaGustauGustawGustávGústavKustaaGustaafGusztáv

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gustave by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,438
Best rank ever
#217
1884
Peak year
1915
152 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,430
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Gustave

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

GustavGustavoGussieGustaboGustafGusGustGustavusGussBraveGustinOctaveCleaveDaveWaveGusterGustasBernaveGustauoSteaveSuaveGustieGustonGusty

Names with a curve like Gustave

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gustave, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OraDockEddWinfieldAllieAloysiusJuniusOthoClemWaldoNewtonFerdinand

Sibling names for Gustave

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

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