boys:
4.2k births since 1880
#1883 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1880
#4227 (45th percentile)
The name Gustav is the #4,227 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,201 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 45.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,883 (58.9% percentile) for all time with 4,201 births since 1880.
Gustav has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Gustav reached its peak popularity in 1883, achieving the 19.8% percentile (ranked #159) with 391 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 391 births per million (ranked 19.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Gustav ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gustav".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Gustav. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Gustav is pronounced as GUH-stuhv, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GOO-stahf, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like G AH1 S T AH0 V) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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