Güst

given name · Latin script

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

Güst is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably from German Gustav or German August.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 99K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 132K
  • NONorway1 in 228K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,362 people, 2010

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gust in US United States.

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)

Probably from German Gustav or German August.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Güst 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 Güst is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,3621 in 99K3.4KGust52
PL Poland2911 in 132K149——
BR Brazil1901 in 1.1M190——
NO Norway241 in 228K24——
CZ Czechia231 in 465K23——
CH Switzerland131 in 646K13——

3,362 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Güst is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Turkish

    Also written Guest, Güest

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Güst under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Güst mean, and where does it come from?
Probably from German Gustav or German August. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Güst a male or female name?
Güst 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.
In which country does Güst have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Güst, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gust.
Where is Güst most common?
Güst is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 99 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Güst?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,362 people named Güst in 2010, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Güst”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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