Gösta

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Göstav ^[1]

Related Names

See Gautstafr

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 June

Sweden

6 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Gösta was used as a pet name long before it became a real given name in Sweden in 1850 ^[1]

Pronunciation

Swedish: [ˈʝœsːta]

Namesakes

Frans Gösta Viktor Ekman (28th December, 1890 – 12th January, 1938), Swedish actor

Gösta Berling is the main character of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Gösta Berlings saga, published in 1891.

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		1	11	8046	31810
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	18	n.a
Norway[4]		n.a.	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	3	n.a	2232
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[2][3][4][5]:

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi