Gussie
Gussie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 198th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918391 births
- Best rank
- #198in 1882
- Since 1880
- 14,182people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,084 girls have been named Gussie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 391 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 391 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,098 boys have also been given it, 7.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gussie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 813 | |
| 1890s | 1,517 | |
| 1900s | 1,942 | |
| 1910s | 3,215 | |
| 1920s | 2,555 | |
| 1930s | 1,371 | |
| 1940s | 859 | |
| 1950s | 515 | |
| 1960s | 204 | |
| 1970s | 56 | |
| 1980s | 29 | |
| 1990s | 8 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Gussie was the 324th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Gussie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Doviepeak 1917
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Maepeak 1918
- Mayepeak 1921
- Gertrudepeak 1917
- Artiepeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.