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The first name 
Gustave

Gustave is a male first name.

Gustave – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Gustave in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gustave in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Gustave by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Gustave ranks at #6,237. That means there are 6,236 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gustave.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Gustave

Gustave -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Gustave annualy. This means that there have been boys named Gustave who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Gustave have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Gustave even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record at rank #205 in the list of the most popular boys' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Gustave was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Gustave 2022 among young parents?

Gustave has never been ranked higher than #205. In 2022, he rivaled the 5,558 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 13 boys named Gustave were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Gustave were born, there have been 11 newborns who received this name.

Gustave -
quite rare in all states

The odds of having a man or boy named Gustave in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Gustave is registered in 13 states, among which are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana or Massachusetts. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Gustave live in New York, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 14,441 men and boys in New York for their name before you meet one who answers with Gustave.

Gustave has 7 letters 
and begins with a G

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With seven letters, the name Gustave has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Gustave

If your name is Gustave and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Gustave

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gustave, you can simply say:

Goat

Unicorn

Sun

Tiger

Apple

Violin

Elephant

This is how the name Gustave is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Gustave in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Gustave

Gustave

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Gustave

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Gustave is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

G
U
S
T
A
V
E

Have you ever waved the name Gustave

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

G
U
S
T
A
V
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gustave sounds like this: