Gustav
Meaning
staff of the Goths (Swedish royal name)
Famously borne by Gustav Klimt, whose gold-leafed The Kiss defined Vienna's fin-de-siecle style.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Gustav has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
183 people · the #27,078 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 23
Among people named Gustav living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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