Boys' name · since 1913
Guster
22 babies named Guster in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1929. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,175 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 22
- born since 1913
- 1920s
- peak decade
Guster is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 22 have been recorded since 1913.
Guster has 22 recorded births among boys since 1913, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1913 to 1929.
- #28,175 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 22 born since 1913
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Guster ranks #28,175 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 22 born since 1913, peaking in the 1920s.
- #28,175 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 22
- born since 1913
- 1920s
- peak decade
Guster's 22 recorded births place it above 37.4% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Guster's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Guster splits its recorded history at 1926: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1913 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1929 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Guster popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1913–1929
- Peak year (1929)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Guster by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (17 births, 77% of the file).
1920s was Guster's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 77% of all-time use.
Guster births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 5
1910s
5 births
- 1920s
1920s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 17 births (77% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Guster: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~16 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1913–1929 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Guster draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.