Swedish name. Northgerman "gunnr" = fight and "stafr" = staff, rune. It means: the one who casts spells for the fight, the one who knows how to read the runes.
Different interpretation: "gu" from the gotes, the whole word meaning supporter of the gotes. Title of the swedish kings.
Other species of the same name I do not know
personally.
Famous people:
- Gustaf Gründgens, know as "Mephisto" in
Goethe's Faust
- Carl XIV. Gustaf, King of Sweden
- Gustaf, a cartoon in Sweden which is known in
other countries as Garfield.
(I have been told that "gustaaf" is also a dutch word for "duty free", but I don't quite believe it.)
Schwedischer Vorname, auch Gustav. Kurzformen: Gus, Gussi, Gösta. Es gibt mehrere Deutungen:
Im protestantischen Deutschland ist Gustav als Verehrungsname für Gustav Adolf heimisch geworden.
Der deutsche Text entspricht nicht dem englischen. The German text does not correspond with the English text.