Gustavo

Where Gustavo comes from

Gustavo 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1836
    Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer born
    Spanish poet
  2. 1911
    First appearance
    #1,290 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1960
    Gustavo Petro born
    42rd President of Colombia 2022–2026
  4. 2000
    Peak, #260
    1,290 babies named Gustavo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #437.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Spanish poet, 1836–1870
  • Gustavo Petro · 42rd President of Colombia 2022–2026, born 1960
  • Gustavo Kuerten · Brazilian tennis player, born 1976
  • Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz · 56th President of Mexico, 1911–1979
  • Gustavo Gutiérrez · Peruvian theologian, 1928–2024

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.