Gustav

• Gustave, Gustavus

A royal name in Sweden, traditionally explained (even by Gustav I Vasa himself) as Swedish göt + staf "staff (=support) of the Geats (southern Swedes)". But there is no such name in Old Norse, and Gustav is more probably a Swedish rendering of Old Polish / north-west Slavic Gostislav, from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Gustav (plural Gustavs)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

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Derived from Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

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Gustav m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Gustav

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

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Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

• Kusta, Kustas, Kustav

From Swedish Gustav, from Old Swedish Gøtstaf, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊs.tav/

Gustav m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

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

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

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Gustav

1. a male given name from Swedish

From Swedish Gustav, also maybe from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

Gustav

1. a male given name of Swedish origin

• Gustaf

From Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geats”) +‎ stafr (“staff”), or maybe from Slavic (compare Old Polish Gościsław, Goscław, Czech Hostislav), from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”). First recorded as Swedish given name in 1521.

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Gustav

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

Gustav c (genitive Gustavs)

1. a male given name

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

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

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• 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.

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