Gösta

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Göstav [1] [2]

Related Names

See Gautstafr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Göstanpoika Finland
Göstason Sweden
Göstasson Sweden

Female

Göstantytär Finland
Göstasdotter Sweden

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gösta
Genitive: Göstan
Partitive: Göstaa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gösta
Genitive: Göstas

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 June

Sweden Sweden

6 June

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: [‘ʝösta] (key)

Earliest Documented Usage

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

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
4499 25250 0 12 4499 25238
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
2287 0 0
n.a.
2287
Denmark Denmark[7]
22
n.a.
0
n.a.
22
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
n.a.
n.a.
0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Gösta (m) Sources: [5][7][8][6]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Gösta (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Gösta (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/