Gustaf
Gustaf was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 747 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gustaf by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gustaf mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gustaf is “a male given name from Swedish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gustaf?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,873, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1917, the peak
Gustaf peaked in 1917, when 25 boys were given it, #1,411 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,873 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,006 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,262 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,779 | 5.4 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,160 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,061 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,277 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,988 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,029 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,475 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #7,883 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,261 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,558 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,420 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,497 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,773 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,167 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,988 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,870 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,267 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,519 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,598 | 4.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,073 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,936 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,835 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,601 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,918 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,690 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,616 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,170 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,723 | 3.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,283 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,297 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,224 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,174 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,334 | 3.3 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,042 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,576 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,916 | 2.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,289 | 4.9 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,892 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,434 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,985 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,999 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,118 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,500 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,318 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,432 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,939 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,828 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,640 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,681 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,281 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,193 | 13.6 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,381 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,658 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,314 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,411 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,726 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,386 | 28.3 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,572 | 24.4 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,398 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,568 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,621 | 26.6 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,117 | 48.8 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,058 | 51.8 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,139 | 47.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,177 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 9 | #867 | 68.0 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,283 | 39.0 |
| 1902 | 7 | #972 | 57.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,119 | 47.0 |
| 1899 | 6 | #981 | 56.5 |
| 1898 | 7 | #925 | 57.1 |
| 1897 | 9 | #751 | 79.8 |
| 1896 | 8 | #852 | 66.9 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,019 | 51.1 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,008 | 51.8 |
| 1893 | 7 | #865 | 62.3 |
| 1891 | 8 | #728 | 79.1 |
| 1890 | 9 | #696 | 81.1 |
| 1889 | 10 | #643 | 90.4 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,097 | 41.4 |
| 1887 | 9 | #652 | 88.7 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,002 | 46.4 |
| 1884 | 11 | #584 | 96.1 |
| 1883 | 8 | #697 | 76.5 |
| 1882 | 7 | #791 | 61.6 |
| 1881 | 5 | #926 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 6 | #859 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gustaf a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gustaf has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gustaf: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gustaf, and how old are they?
An estimated 240 Americans named Gustaf and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 369 people named Gustaf (0 women and girls, 369 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 244 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Gustaf
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 Gustaf and names like it
- Compare Gustaf and DockBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGustaf peaked in 1917.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gustaf since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Gustaf: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Gustaf.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gustaf alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.