Gustav

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gustav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name. In English, recorded as A male given name from the Germanic languages.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 122(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 746
  • NONorway1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

83,660 people

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
229 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 122 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VasudevLatin(measured from records)
বাসুদেবBengali(measured from records)
วาสุเทพThai(measured from records)
구스타프Hangul(measured from records)
ΓκουσταβGreek(measured from records)
БасудевCyrillic(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The letter "G" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gustav is read(measured from records)

Gustav is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • German39%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gustav in German.

  • English24%

    A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swedish14%

    The letter "G" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gustav counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gustav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#8683,6601 in 12284KGustav156
DE Germany#457≈25,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Gustav166
DK Denmark#2477,8701 in 7467.9KGustav139
BJ Benin#144≈7,300 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Gustav7
ZA South Africa—≈5,200 est.≈1 in 11K—Gustav73
FI Finland—4,2431 in 1.3K7.5KGustav25
NO Norway#4383,6491 in 1.5K13KGustav60

83,660 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gustav is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Estonia, Finland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Güstav, Gustâv

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Gustáv, Gústav, Güstäv, Güstáv

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gusṭav, Gustáv

  • Croatian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Sweden, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Густав, Gusztav, Gustaw, Gustaph, Gusztáv

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gustav is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Danish, a male given name of Swedish origin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Gustav Vasa, b. 1496Gustav II Adolf, b. 1594Karl X Gustav, b. 1622Gustav Klimt, b. 1862Carl Gustav Jung, b. 1875Gustav Stresemann, b. 1878Gustav Ludwig Hertz, b. 1887Martin Niemöller, b. 1892Gustav Heinemann, b. 1899Gustáv Husák, b. 1913

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 76 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Gustav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—84K#35
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202021K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—13K#345
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—7.9K#92
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—7.5K#239
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.2K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20253.6K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)2025250—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present)2012201#44
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1944——

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Gustav come from?
The letter "G" in the Swedish spelling alphabet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Gustav a male or female name?
Gustav is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Gustav mean?
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages.
In which country does Gustav have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 84 thousand people named Gustav, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gustav.
Where is Gustav most common?
Gustav is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 122 people carrying it.
What are other forms of the name Gustav?
In the etymology graph, Gustaf and Gösta are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Gustav?
In Sweden, the national register counted 83,660 people named Gustav, about 1 in 122 residents.
How common is Gustav compared with other names?
In Sweden, Gustav is the 86th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gustav” — the 86th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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