girls:
104 births since 1975
#5612 (2nd percentile)
boys:
39.5k births since 1911
#568 (88th percentile)
overall:
39.6k births since 1911
#1244 (84th percentile)
The name Gustavo is the #1,244 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,565 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 83.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #568 (87.6% percentile) for all time with 39,461 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,612 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 104 births since 1975.
Gustavo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Gustavo is available in 112 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 18 years for girls). 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 Gustavo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gustavo reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 69.4% percentile (ranked #250) with 618 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 618 births per million (ranked 69.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gustavo ranks #533 for boys (41.5% percentile) with 235 births per million, which is 38.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gustavo reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gustavo".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gustavo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Gustavo is pronounced as guh-STAH-voh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is goo-STAH-voh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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