Gustav
2025 SSA
About Gustav
Gray-bearded name heard primarily in Sweden and Germany.
Pronounced GUS-tav.
As of October 2026, Gustav ranked #3686 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #242 in 1883.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,938 | 19 | 9.9 |
| 2015 | #4,337 | 23 | 12 |
| 2016 | #3,811 | 28 | 14.8 |
| 2017 | #3,406 | 33 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | #3,402 | 33 | 18.2 |
| 2019 | #2,776 | 45 | 25.1 |
| 2020 | #3,092 | 37 | 21.4 |
| 2021 | #3,381 | 34 | 19.4 |
| 2022 | #3,718 | 30 | 17.2 |
| 2023 | #3,495 | 33 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | #3,340 | 35 | 20.3 |
| 2025 | #3,686 | 30 | 17.6 |
World rankings
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Gustav on lists
Famous Gustavs
- Gustav I Vasa
King of Sweden, whose reign marked the end of the Kalmar Union and the beginning of Swedish independence
- Gustav II Adolf aka Gustavus Adolphus
King of Sweden, praised military leader during the Thirty Year War
- Gustav III
King of Sweden, who highly influenced the arts of Sweden during the Neo,Classical era
- Gustav IV Adolf
King of Sweden
- Charles X Gustav
King of Sweden
- Gustav Klimt
Austrian Symbolist painter
- Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor
- Gustav Åbergsson
Swedish stage actor
- Gustav Bertha
Scottish singer,songwriter
- Gustav A. Fischer
German explorer
- Gustav Fröhlich
German actor
- Gustav Haggren
singer/songwriter in the Swedish band Gustav and the Seasick Sailors
- Gustav A. Hedlund
American mathematician
- Gustav Heinse (born Josef Klein)
Bulgarian poet of Austrian origin
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Gustav Heynhold
German botanist
- Gustav Holst
British composer
- Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
- Gustav Leonhardt
Dutch musician
- Heinrich Gustav Magnus
German chemist and physicist
- Gustav Meyrink
Austrian novelist
- Gustav Nezval
Czech actor
- Gustav Schäfer
drummer of the German rock band Tokio Hotel
- Gustav A. Schneebeli
U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Gustav Spörer
German astronomer
- Gustav Vigeland
Norwegian sculptor
- Gustav Wood
singer in British rock band Young Guns
- Gustav C. Brunn
creator of Old Bay Seasoning
- Gustav Elijah Åhr aka Lil Peep
American,Swedish rapper
- Gustav Per Fredrik Engvall
Swedish international footballer
- Gustav "Gus" Phillips (b. 2009)
son of American actress Julie Bowen
- Carl Gustav Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
Gustav in pop culture
- Gustav Patton "Gus" Griswald
character from animated series Recess
- Gustav (Zoids)
transportation mecha from the Zoids fictional universe
- Gustav Graves
villain in the James Bond series