Gust
Gust was last recorded in 1984, when 6 babies were given it; 1,871 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gust by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gust?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,846, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1923, the peak
Gust peaked in 1923, when 59 boys were given it, #887 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | #5,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,232 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,703 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 7 | #3,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,238 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,982 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,907 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,003 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,784 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,261 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,966 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,122 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,927 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,034 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,484 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,366 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 48 | #997 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 50 | #994 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 44 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 59 | #887 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 56 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,033 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 25 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 14 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 10 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 11 | #835 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 11 | #777 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,154 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,282 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 11 | #712 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 15 | #564 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 15 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 16 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 16 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 16 | #528 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 17 | #485 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 21 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1895 | 20 | #445 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 20 | #428 | 0.17 |
| 1893 | 12 | #588 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 31 | #339 | 0.25 |
| 1891 | 16 | #448 | 0.16 |
| 1890 | 19 | #418 | 0.17 |
| 1889 | 27 | #342 | 0.24 |
| 1888 | 25 | #372 | 0.21 |
| 1887 | 25 | #330 | 0.25 |
| 1886 | 24 | #350 | 0.22 |
| 1885 | 15 | #489 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 20 | #405 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 12 | #539 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 25 | #360 | 0.22 |
| 1881 | 22 | #354 | 0.22 |
| 1880 | 23 | #357 | 0.21 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gust a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gust has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gust: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gust, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Gust and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 439 people named Gust (3 women and girls, 436 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Gust rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Gust born?
The states with the most babies named Gust are Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 171 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 23 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 23 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Dakota | 5 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| West Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Gust is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gust is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 boys’ 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 Gust 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 Gust
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 Gust and names like it
- Compare Gust and LemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGust peaked in 1923.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gust since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Gust.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gust alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.