Gussie

Where Gussie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Gussie.

  • Vowel-ended
Gussie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #208 among girls, with 54 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #197
    70 babies named Gussie, its best rank.
  3. 1923
    Gussie Moran born
    American tennis player
  4. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,097.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Augustus.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Augusta.
Namesakes
  • Gussie Moran · American tennis player, 1923–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.