Name info: About the name Gustaf in particular | Gender: | male |
Languages of use: | German, Scandinavian |
Diminutives: | Gustl |
Popularity: | no rank in any popularity list in this database |
Similarly written: | Gustaaf, Gustas, Gustav, Gustaw, Gösta, Gust, Gustave, Gustavo, Gustavs, Gusti Details |
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Group info: About Gustaf, the group of names with the same origin as Gustaf | Language of origin: | Old Norse |
Info about origin: | name of Old Norse origin with disputed meaning, maybe staff of the Goths |
| this was the name of 6 Swedish kings |
Words: | gautr = the goth (member of the Germanic tribe of the Goths) Old Norse |
| stafr = the stick, the staff (in the sense of stick) Old Norse |
Topics: | Two-element name |
Variants' top ranks: | 2:Gustavs Latvia 2016, 9:Gustavo Brazil 2011, 12:Gustav Denmark 2009, 38:Gustaw Warsaw 2016, 51:Gust Belgium 2019, 55:Gustave Paris 2016, 82:Gösta Sweden 2014, 189:Gustaaf Belgium 2013 |
Old/original forms: | Gustavus Latinized |
Name variants: | Gösta, Gust, Gustaaf, Gustaf, Gustav, Gustave, Gustavo, Gustavs, Gustaw Sortable list Details |
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