girls:
13.1k births since 1880
#1362 (76th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1884
#3503 (24th percentile)
overall:
14.2k births since 1880
#2201 (72nd percentile)
The name Gussie is the #2,201 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,182 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 71.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,362 (76.2% percentile) for all time with 13,084 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,503 (23.6% percentile) for all time with 1,098 births since 1884.
Gussie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1884 for boys). Birth data for Gussie is available in 103 out of the 112 years between 1880 and 1991 (103 years for girls and 74 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gussie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gussie reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #292) with 357 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 743 births per million (ranked 47.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
For boys, Gussie reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #516) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 90 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gussie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gussie is pronounced as GUH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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