Meaning not yet researched.
Gustavo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 447 in 2025. Its best rank was #260 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #260 in 2000; #625 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gustavo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#625 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #260.
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Gustavo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 447 boys in 2025. Peak: #260 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 1,290 (2000).
In 2025, 447 US boys were named Gustavo, making it the 625th most common boys’ name of the year, up 15 places from #640 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 439 boys named Gustavo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #260, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,290. For comparison, it was #526 in 2015 and #816 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gustavo in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 8 babies. In all, 40,461 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 11,027 babies named Gustavo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,508 US boys were named Gustavo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 517. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,821 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gustavo ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #360 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gustave (5,430 babies since 1880) and Gustav (4,267 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gustaf, Gustavus and Guztavo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gustaf (747), Gustavus (266), Guztavo (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gustavo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 104 | #360 | #327 |
| California | 96 | #361 | #283 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #388 | — |
| Kansas | 9 | #405 | #620 |
| Arizona | 16 | #449 | #359 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #484 | #577 |
| Washington | 14 | #511 | #654 |
| Florida | 34 | #519 | #540 |
| Nevada | 5 | #541 | #316 |
| Oregon | 6 | #554 | #512 |
| Colorado | 9 | #588 | #427 |
| Maryland | 8 | #600 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #650 | #490 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #694 | #601 |
| Georgia | 13 | #728 | #944 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #739 | #964 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #785 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #825 | #567 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #853 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #861 | #443 |
| Virginia | 7 | #911 | #558 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #947 | — |
| New York | 13 | #963 | #809 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 447 | #625 |
| 2024 | — | — | 439 | #640 |
| 2023 | — | — | 434 | #635 |
| 2022 | — | — | 435 | #637 |
| 2021 | — | — | 417 | #655 |
| 2020 | — | — | 432 | #623 |
| 2019 | — | — | 457 | #600 |
| 2018 | — | — | 443 | #609 |
| 2017 | — | — | 487 | #557 |
| 2016 | — | — | 517 | #556 |
| 2015 | — | — | 545 | #526 |
| 2014 | — | — | 586 | #483 |
| 2013 | — | — | 609 | #461 |
| 2012 | — | — | 707 | #410 |
| 2011 | — | — | 624 | #438 |
| 2010 | — | — | 684 | #412 |
| 2009 | — | — | 838 | #364 |
| 2008 | — | — | 973 | #338 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,137 | #300 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,080 | #306 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,114 | #294 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,102 | #290 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,170 | #267 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,177 | #265 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,141 | #272 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,907 | 1,290 | #260 |
| 1999 | — | — | 935 | #308 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,964 | 896 | #312 |
| 1997 | — | — | 918 | #297 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,284 | 898 | #295 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,217 | 911 | #290 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,197 | 970 | #281 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,285 | 1,010 | #280 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,872 | 873 | #307 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,843 | 849 | #303 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,740 | 722 | #343 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,326 | 700 | #333 |
| 1988 | — | — | 526 | #380 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,302 | 629 | #328 |
| 1986 | — | — | 448 | #403 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,651 | 452 | #400 |
| 1984 | — | — | 371 | #435 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,431 | 378 | #422 |
| 1982 | — | — | 451 | #381 |
| 1981 | — | — | 508 | #350 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,923 | 388 | #417 |
| 1979 | — | — | 336 | #441 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,291 | 304 | #459 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,143 | 330 | #438 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,563 | 319 | #434 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,341 | 307 | #459 |
| 1974 | — | — | 307 | #458 |
| 1973 | — | — | 289 | #459 |
| 1972 | — | — | 262 | #487 |
| 1971 | — | — | 279 | #482 |
| 1970 | — | — | 271 | #493 |
| 1969 | — | — | 240 | #500 |
| 1968 | — | — | 210 | #525 |
| 1967 | — | — | 194 | #535 |
| 1966 | — | — | 178 | #570 |
| 1965 | — | — | 182 | #567 |
| 1964 | — | — | 178 | #592 |
| 1963 | — | — | 212 | #546 |
| 1962 | — | — | 175 | #591 |
| 1961 | — | — | 188 | #577 |
| 1960 | — | — | 140 | #662 |
| 1959 | — | — | 149 | #635 |
| 1958 | — | — | 140 | #650 |
| 1957 | — | — | 107 | #725 |
| 1956 | — | — | 113 | #696 |
| 1955 | — | — | 115 | #687 |
| 1954 | — | — | 111 | #685 |
| 1953 | — | — | 113 | #673 |
| 1952 | — | — | 78 | #798 |
| 1951 | — | — | 86 | #755 |
| 1950 | — | — | 70 | #816 |
| 1949 | — | — | 55 | #937 |
| 1948 | — | — | 58 | #907 |
| 1947 | — | — | 57 | #927 |
| 1946 | — | — | 49 | #955 |
| 1945 | — | — | 38 | #1,046 |
| 1944 | — | — | 39 | #1,061 |
| 1943 | — | — | 33 | #1,196 |
| 1942 | — | — | 36 | #1,150 |
| 1941 | — | — | 40 | #1,026 |
| 1940 | — | — | 39 | #1,037 |
| 1939 | — | — | 38 | #1,041 |
| 1938 | — | — | 30 | #1,207 |
| 1937 | — | — | 35 | #1,104 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,279 |
| 1935 | — | — | 43 | #972 |
| 1934 | — | — | 39 | #1,048 |
| 1933 | — | — | 38 | #1,059 |
| 1932 | — | — | 38 | #1,097 |
| 1931 | — | — | 37 | #1,117 |
| 1930 | — | — | 41 | #1,088 |
| 1929 | — | — | 31 | #1,280 |
| 1928 | — | — | 41 | #1,102 |
| 1927 | — | — | 35 | #1,236 |
| 1926 | — | — | 32 | #1,284 |
| 1925 | — | — | 31 | #1,312 |
| 1924 | — | — | 39 | #1,165 |
| 1923 | — | — | 30 | #1,338 |
| 1922 | — | — | 24 | #1,561 |
| 1921 | — | — | 28 | #1,430 |
| 1920 | — | — | 26 | #1,473 |
| 1919 | — | — | 25 | #1,463 |
| 1918 | — | — | 22 | #1,623 |
| 1917 | — | — | 20 | #1,666 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,885 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,912 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,023 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,619 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,328 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).