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Gustav

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables3 tokens

Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Boys

In 2025

#3,686 for boys

Peak

1883, #242

Since 1880

4,267 babies

On licences

39 dogs in New York

Charting: Gustav

Figure 1. Human babies named Gustav, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002025210421peak 1883 · #242
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Gustav was given to 30 boys in 2025, ranking 3,686th for the year. It peaked in 1883, when it ranked 242nd and went to 44 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 593 places since 2020. It is also on 39 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,532nd among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Gustav, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Gustav yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Gustav · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent