Gust

Where Gust comes from

Gust hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #356 among boys — 23 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #330
    25 babies named Gust — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #572.
  4. 1924
    Gust Graas born
    Luxembourgian abstract painter
  5. 1938
    Gust Avrakotos born
    CIA analyst
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gust Avrakotos · CIA analyst, 1938–2005
  • Gust Graas · Luxembourgian abstract painter, 1924–2020
  • Gust van Brussel · Belgian writer, 1924–2015
  • Gust De Muynck · director of the Belgian Radio Broadcasting Company, 1897–1986
  • Gust Gils · Belgian poet, 1924–2002

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.