Gustave

Where Gustave comes from

From French Gustave. French form of Swedish royal name Gustav; see Gustav for more.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gustave
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1821
    Gustave Flaubert born
    French novelist
  2. 1832
    Gustave Eiffel born
    French chemical engineer and architect
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #236 among boys — 49 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1884
    Peak, #217
    58 babies named Gustave — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #332.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Gustav.
Namesakes
  • Gustave Flaubert · French novelist, 1821–1880
  • Gustave Eiffel · French chemical engineer and architect, 1832–1923
  • Gustave Le Bon · French psychologist, 1841–1931
  • Gustave Courbet · French painter, 1819–1877
  • Gustave Doré · French illustrator and painter, 1832–1883

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.