Gustavs

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

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

Gustavs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 498(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 122as Gustav
  • DKDenmark1 in 746as Gustav

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gustavs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

83,660 named Gustav

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 498 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GustavsLatin(measured from records)
ГуставCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gustav in SE Sweden, FI Finland.

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)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gustavs 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 Gustavs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—83,660as Gustav1 in 12284KGustav13
DK Denmark—7,870as Gustav1 in 7467.9K——
PL Poland—7,470as Gustaw1 in 5.1K7.5K—1
FI Finland—4,243as Gustav1 in 1.3K7.5KGustav2
LV Latvia#2173,7761 in 4983.8KGustavs65
NO Norway—3,649as Gustav1 in 1.5K13KGustavs6

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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register 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)

Gustavs is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gústavs

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Gústavs

32 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Gustavs Reinhards, b. 1868Gustavs Zemgals, b. 1871Gustavs Šķilters, b. 1874Gustavs Klaustiņš, b. 1880Gustavs Turss, b. 1890Gustavs Vanags, b. 1891Gustavs Erenpreis, b. 1891Gustavs Celmiņš, b. 1899Gustavo, b. 1978Gustavs Grigals, b. 1998

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalSveiki Gustavs,Hi Gustavs, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Gustavs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—3.8K#142
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—3.8K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—62#10,395
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#9,490
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—31#18,573
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202016—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—13#5,896
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201913—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201713—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201811—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#41,624
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201610—

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

Is Gustavs a male or female name?
Gustavs 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 Gustavs mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
In which country does Gustavs 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 is Gustavs most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gustavs is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 498 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gustavs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 3,776 people named Gustavs, about 1 in 498 residents.
How common is Gustavs compared with other names?
In Latvia, Gustavs is the 217th most common given name of 11,601 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, “Gustavs” — the 217th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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