Gussie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Gussie

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,084 babies named Gussie between 1880 and 1991, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gussie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 391 babies received it in a single year. Gussie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,098 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gussie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 3,215 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Gussie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 1,642 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Gussie in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gussie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,084 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.