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How popular is “Gustaf” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gustaf” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gustaf” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gustaf” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gustaf” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gustaf” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gustaf” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gustaf” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 6 0.000029779 6 -100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 -100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 11 0.000011133 11 -100%
1913 15 0.000013191 15 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 24 0.000013097 24 -100%
1916 18 0.000009305 18 -100%
1917 25 0.000012458 25 -100%
1918 13 0.000005988 13 -100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 -100%
1920 13 0.000005745 13 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 14 0.000006297 14 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 -100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%

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