Gusta
Gusta was last recorded in 1946, when 5 babies were given it; 578 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gusta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gusta mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Gusta is “a diminutive of the female given names Gustava, Augusta, and Augustina”
Also “a diminutive of the male given names Gustav, August, and Augustin”
[ˈɡusta]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gusta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,217, in 1946; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1919, the peak
Gusta peaked in 1919, when 20 girls were given it, #1,881 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 5 | #5,217 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,937 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,028 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,282 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,716 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,607 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,237 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,565 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,026 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,780 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | #5,306 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,588 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,138 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,328 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,691 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,313 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,881 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,144 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,951 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,068 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,833 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,058 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,948 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,449 | 26.9 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,709 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,138 | 40.4 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,520 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,251 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,441 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,258 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 15 | #984 | 51.4 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,071 | 43.6 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,496 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,680 | 22.7 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,036 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,360 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,220 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 16 | #859 | 61.8 |
| 1897 | 19 | #726 | 81.1 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,251 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 17 | #779 | 72.8 |
| 1894 | 12 | #922 | 53.8 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,125 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 11 | #931 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 15 | #708 | 80.9 |
| 1890 | 10 | #894 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,193 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,077 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 10 | #760 | 68.5 |
| 1886 | 7 | #934 | 48.4 |
| 1885 | 9 | #767 | 67.6 |
| 1884 | 11 | #656 | 85.3 |
| 1883 | 5 | #972 | 44.5 |
| 1881 | 7 | #711 | 76.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gusta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gusta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gusta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gusta, and how old are they?
An estimated 13 Americans named Gusta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 120 people named Gusta (82 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 29 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 689 babies since 1880, Gusta is the most given (84% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gusta
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 Gusta and names like it
- Compare Gusta and GustieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGusta peaked in 1919.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gusta since 1910.
- Czech namesWiktionary’s origin for Gusta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Gusta.
- Names starting with GMost given first.