Gustavia is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Gustavia has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Gustavia. That means that a girl named Gustavia is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gustavia.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Gustavia. Girls named Gustavia have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,440 Gustavia ranked higher than ever in 1902. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Gustavia has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Gustavia only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gustavia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Gustavia, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Gustavia living in one state or another (if your name is Gustavia and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 36,253 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Gustavia. So, if your name is Gustavia it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Gustavia already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Gustavia is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gustavia 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gustavia, you can simply say:
Goat
Unicorn
Sun
Tiger
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gustavia
Gustavia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
U
S
T
A
V
I
A
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
I
A
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. Gustavia sounds like this:
