Gussie
Gussie was last recorded in 1991, when 8 babies were given it; 14,182 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Gussie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 70 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gussie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gussie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gussie is “a diminutive of the female given name Augusta.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Augustus.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gussie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,632, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
417 babies in 1918, the peak
Gussie peaked in 1918, when 417 babies were given it (391 girls, #324 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #9,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,985 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,371 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,441 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,901 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | #6,151 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,910 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,176 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,619 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,917 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,701 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,179 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,265 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,117 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 48 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 57 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 77 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 79 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 61 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 67 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 82 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 68 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 69 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 108 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 80 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 90 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 105 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 129 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 115 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 122 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 140 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 132 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 119 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 118 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 153 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 154 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1931 | 151 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 167 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 153 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 179 | #517 | 0.16 |
| 1927 | 219 | #473 | 0.18 |
| 1926 | 243 | #439 | 0.20 |
| 1925 | 286 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1924 | 262 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1923 | 265 | #411 | 0.22 |
| 1922 | 312 | #370 | 0.26 |
| 1921 | 308 | #381 | 0.25 |
| 1920 | 328 | #362 | 0.27 |
| 1919 | 374 | #328 | 0.33 |
| 1918 | 391 | #324 | 0.34 |
| 1917 | 364 | #323 | 0.34 |
| 1916 | 388 | #306 | 0.37 |
| 1915 | 344 | #318 | 0.35 |
| 1914 | 336 | #287 | 0.44 |
| 1913 | 274 | #285 | 0.44 |
| 1912 | 259 | #282 | 0.46 |
| 1911 | 245 | #249 | 0.59 |
| 1910 | 240 | #249 | 0.61 |
| 1909 | 211 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1908 | 213 | #232 | 0.64 |
| 1907 | 194 | #242 | 0.61 |
| 1906 | 188 | #231 | 0.64 |
| 1905 | 205 | #217 | 0.70 |
| 1904 | 173 | #235 | 0.63 |
| 1903 | 170 | #230 | 0.65 |
| 1902 | 185 | #218 | 0.70 |
| 1901 | 167 | #220 | 0.70 |
| 1900 | 236 | #203 | 0.79 |
| 1899 | 137 | #237 | 0.59 |
| 1898 | 181 | #214 | 0.70 |
| 1897 | 166 | #213 | 0.71 |
| 1896 | 167 | #215 | 0.70 |
| 1895 | 150 | #225 | 0.64 |
| 1894 | 165 | #208 | 0.74 |
| 1893 | 138 | #221 | 0.65 |
| 1892 | 151 | #206 | 0.71 |
| 1891 | 137 | #200 | 0.74 |
| 1890 | 125 | #216 | 0.66 |
| 1889 | 133 | #200 | 0.75 |
| 1888 | 118 | #207 | 0.66 |
| 1887 | 82 | #235 | 0.56 |
| 1886 | 89 | #212 | 0.62 |
| 1885 | 87 | #206 | 0.65 |
| 1884 | 62 | #245 | 0.48 |
| 1883 | 68 | #216 | 0.61 |
| 1882 | 70 | #198 | 0.65 |
| 1881 | 50 | #216 | 0.54 |
| 1880 | 54 | #209 | 0.59 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gussie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,182 Americans recorded as Gussie, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gussie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gussie, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 12% of the 14,182 Americans ever recorded as Gussie. The median Gussie alive today is 78 years old; half are between 70 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 1,738 people named Gussie (1,547 women and girls, 191 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 652 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 785 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 134 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gussie born?
The states with the most babies named Gussie are Georgia, Alabama and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 1,653 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Alabama | 1,060 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| New York | 762 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 754 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 701 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Louisiana | 633 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Mississippi | 518 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 444 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Arkansas | 342 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Tennessee | 189 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Gussie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gussie is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 5.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gussie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gussie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gussie and names like it
- Compare Gussie and HessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGussie peaked in 1918.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gussie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Gussie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gussie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.