Gus

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Gus: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Gus: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #402 in 2020, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#402highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1040
1997	#2022
1998	#669
1999	#1130
2000	#773
2001	#751
2002	#1077
2003	#889
2004	#1222
2005	#1617
2006	#1280
2007	#1169
2008	#1294
2009	#1425
2010	#1171
2011	#1087
2012	#1430
2013	#1617
2014	#1223
2015	#807
2016	#974
2017	#861
2018	#870
2019	#1217
2020	#962
2021	#815
2022	#699
2023	#910
2024	#664

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #664 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1040 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2011–2025
Highest recorded position: #402 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2011–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Gus appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 698 births with the name.

Gus across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Gus's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#664 (2024)	#664 (2024)	29 of 29	698 (1996–2024)	56 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#490 (2011)	#402 (2020)	#676 (2025)	8 of 15	36 (2011–2025)	9 (2020)

Gus by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Gus in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	55	4 of 10	14
2000s	178	10 of 10	18
2010s	259	10 of 10	26
2020sbusiest	206	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 41 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Gus appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #402 in Republic of Ireland in 2020.

Gus's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#664	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#910	34	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#699	48	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#815	39	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#962	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1217	21	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#870	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#861	36	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#974	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#807	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1223	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1087	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1171	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1280	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#889	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1077	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#773	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1130	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#669	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #402, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Gurvir · #1519, 26y
Gustas · #346, 20y
Gustav · #19, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Celeste · #401, 30y
Luisa · #401, 31y
Albi · #404, 26y
Jethro · #398, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayana · #402, 29y
Sheldon · #402, 29y
Codey · #403, 28y
Edan · #403, 29y

Gus was ranked #402 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Gus and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Gus without appearing here.

Gus moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1280 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1169 and #2435.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1617 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1280 and #2538.
Garry Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1077 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #889 and #1771.
Courtney Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1617 and #1534 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1280 and #2087.

Moved ahead of Gus

Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #669 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1130 and #655.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1222 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1617 and #1190.
Cooper Compare
In 2014 they stood at #490 and #623 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2015 that had become #615 and #190.
Teddy Compare
In 2014 they stood at #490 and #730 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2015 that had become #615 and #210.

Moved the opposite way to Gus

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Gus went from #2022 to #910 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Gus went from #2022 to #807 while Morten went from #2859 to #4747.

Moved the same way as Gus

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gus went from #2022 to #664 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.
Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gus went from #1130 to #664 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gus went from #1130 to #664 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Gus went from #1130 to #664 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #402 in Republic of Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gus

Gus at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Gus across 2 official records

Gus by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Gus appears in

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Gus at a glance

Gus across 2 official records

Gus by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Gus and the names beside it

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