Gustawa
The feminine form of Gustaw, from a Germanic root meaning "staff of the Geats". Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Gustawa Pronunciation
Gustawa is pronounced goos-TAH-vah (/gusˈtava/).
What Gustawa means
Where Gustawa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gustawa is the feminine form of Gustaw, and both reach back to Germanic roots that traveled north into Scandinavia. The Swedish Gustav joined two old elements, Gaut, a word tied to the Geats, and stafr, meaning a staff or support. Together they yield the sense that trails the name, staff of the Geats, someone pictured as the prop of a people.
The masculine Gustaw is the better-known form in Poland. It carries a literary charge, since Gustaw is the tormented hero of part four of Mickiewicz's Dziady. Gustawa keeps that lineage and turns it toward a woman, a rarer choice on any Polish list.
Picture the name on a form at the urząd. The clerk pauses at the ending. Everything else looks familiar, only the final -a marks it as hers.
The origin stays visible in the meaning it left behind, staff of the Geats, support of the Goths in the Polish gloss.
When Gustawa celebrates name day
Gustawa appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 November.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Gustawa
1 in 115609 women in Poland is named Gustawa. 195 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2263 among female names.
Gustawa as a middle name
Gustawa is a first name for 195 women in Poland and a middle name for another 101, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 662nd, between Dioniza (101) and Ingrida (101).
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#660 Anna Maria101
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#661 Dioniza101
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#662 Gustawa101
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#663 Ingrida101
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#664 Jessika101