# Gustave (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gustave/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Gustav, Gustavus |
| US babies named this | 5,430 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,430 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 32, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French Gustave. French form of Swedish royal name Gustav; see Gustav for more.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | 5,332 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,330 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,161 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,084 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,426 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,684 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,020 |
| 2017 | 18 | 5,168 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,481 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7,839 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,420 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,244 |
| 2022 | 13 | 6,602 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,292 |
| 2025 | 10 | 7,858 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |

## People named Gustave

- Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (1821–1880)
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, French writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)
- Gustave Eiffel, French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
- Gustave Courbet, French painter (1819–1877)
- Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist (1841-1931)
- Gustave Doré, French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
- Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (1848–1894)
- Gustave Moreau, 19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
- Gustave Charpentier, French composer (1860-1956)
- Gustave de Molinari, Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist (1819–1912)
- Gustave Garrigou, French racing cyclist (1884–1963)
- Gustave Kahn, French symbolist poet and art critic (1859–1936)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.