Gus Boy Name

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The name Gus is a diminutive form of Gustav. The table below indicates the number of times the name Gus has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Gus**
Use of the Name Gus for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
15,508	3,042	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Gus has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Gus last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1978, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Gus**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	137	99
1881	128	94
1882	121	120
1883	158	81
1884	123	117
1885	155	87
1886	135	102
1887	154	82
1888	121	133
1889	125	114
1890	132	109
1891	158	85
1892	138	117
1893	158	93
1894	196	76
1895	199	72
1896	170	95
1897	174	89
1898	194	78
1899	192	71
1900	174	120
1901	203	70
1902	195	85
1903	210	71
1904	214	75
1905	220	76
1906	209	85
1907	201	96
1908	233	80
1909	205	103
1910	227	106
1911	260	99
1912	278	164
1913	276	198
1914	303	224
1915	302	286
1916	307	288
1917	314	292
1918	323	308
1919	306	325
1920	332	309
1921	323	330
1922	334	305
1923	356	277
1924	339	294
1925	316	324
1926	338	296
1927	345	282
1928	356	260
1929	350	258
1930	349	261
1931	364	238
1932	373	224
1933	377	207
1934	387	200
1935	389	196
1936	407	180
1937	470	144
1938	447	167
1939	436	170
1940	467	153
1941	484	147
1942	472	171
1943	483	162
1944	497	148
1945	472	160
1946	509	158
1947	480	195
1948	493	178
1949	555	146
1950	529	163
1951	549	152
1952	530	176
1953	537	173
1954	517	197
1955	569	168
1956	595	162
1957	576	180
1958	549	198
1959	590	173
1960	559	198
1961	588	181
1962	592	173
1963	636	152
1964	651	142
1965	632	143
1966	641	134
1967	688	117
1968	768	93
1969	808	91
1970	880	84
1971	738	124
1972	823	95
1973	800	97
1974	881	84
1975	849	96
1976	922	82
1977
1978	996	75
Totals:		15,508		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Gus as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Gus appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 98 times during the last 125 years.

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