Guss
Guss is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 361st, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192039 births
- Best rank
- #361in 1883
- Since 1880
- 1,136people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,136 boys have been named Guss in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 39 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1920, its biggest year
Guss was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Guss
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ciceropeak 1920
- Mosepeak 1919
- Fatepeak 1919
- Claudpeak 1919
- Ikepeak 1953
- Simpeak 1918
- Washingtonpeak 1921
- Ligepeak 1915
Other spellings in the data
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.