Gustav

See also: Gustáv

English

Alternative forms

• Gustave, Gustavus

Etymology

A common royal name in Sweden, from Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geat/Goth”) +‎ stafr (“staff”). The oldest record in Sweden dates back to the year 1225 ("Gostauus"). In Peder Swart's chronicle about Gustav Vasa dated in the mid-1500s, the name is spelled Götstaff and is assumed to mean "Staff of the Geats."

Proper noun

Gustav (plural Gustavs)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Derived terms

• Gus

Translations

given name

• Bengali: গুস্তাভ (gustabh)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古斯塔夫 (Gǔsītǎfū)

• Corsican: Gustavu m
• Czech: Gustav (cs)
• Danish: Gustav
• Dutch: Gustaaf (nl) m
• Esperanto: Gustavo
• Estonian: Gustav, Kustav
• Finnish: Kustaa (fi)
• French: Gustave (fr) m
• Galician: Gustavo (gl) m
• German: Gustav (de)
• Greek: Γουσταύος (el) m (Goustávos)
• Greenlandic: Kuutak
• Hindi: गुस्ताव (gustāv)
• Hungarian: Gusztáv (hu)
• Icelandic: Gústaf (is), Gústav (is)
• Italian: Gustavo (it) m
• Latin: Gustavus m
• Latvian: Gustavs m
• Norwegian: Gustav (no)
• Polish: Gustaw (pl)
• Portuguese: Gustavo (pt) m
• Russian: Густав (ru) m (Gustav)
• Spanish: Gustavo (es)
• Swedish: Gustav (sv) c, Gustaf (sv) c
• West Frisian: Gustaaf m

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Swedish Gustav

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡustaf]

Proper noun

Gustav m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Gustav

Declension

Declension of Gustav (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Gustav	Gustavové
genitive	Gustava	Gustavů
dative	Gustavovi, Gustavu	Gustavům
accusative	Gustava	Gustavy
vocative	Gustave	Gustavové
locative	Gustavovi, Gustavu	Gustavech
instrumental	Gustavem	Gustavy

Danish

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔsˌtɑw]

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Estonian

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Related terms

• Kusta, Kustas, Kustav

Faroese

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav, from Old Swedish Gøtstaf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊs.tav/

Proper noun

Gustav m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Gustav: Gustavsson
• daughter of Gustav: Gustavsdóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Gustav
accusative	Gustav
dative	Gustavi
genitive	Gustavs

German

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name from Swedish

Norwegian

Etymology

From Swedish Gustav

Proper noun

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Gustaf

Etymology

From Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geats”) +‎ stafr (“staff”)

The oldest record in Sweden dates back to the year 1225 ("Gostauus"). In Peder Swart's chronicle about Gustav Vasa dated in the mid-1500s, the name is spelled Götstaff and is assumed to mean "Staff of the Geats."

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Interjection

Gustav

1. The letter "G" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Proper noun

Gustav c (genitive Gustavs)

1. a male given name

Usage notes

• Royal name, and popular given name in Sweden since the sixteenth century.

Derived terms

• Gustavsson

Related terms

• (male given names) Gösta
• (female given names) Gustava
• (surnames) Gustafsson, Gustavsson

Descendants

• English: Gustav
• French: Gustave
• Latin: Gustavus

References

• https://www.alltomnamn.se/namn/gustav
• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 80 029 males with the given name Gustav (compared to 43 816 named Gustaf) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• utgavs