Comments for GUS (1):

Gus was the fat little mouse in Disney's animated "Cinderella."

-- breakofday  12/22/2005

Gus could be a nickname for Fergus too.

-- Anonymous User  1/31/2006

My brother's name is Gus and when we were in Austria, people constantly called him Goose, like a long U sound. So now, to pay him out, we call him Goose. So yeah, that's another pronunciation. :)

-- bellaboo  11/12/2006

Adorable! Works with any age.

-- nothingshortoftragic  12/12/2006

This is the name of the title character in the poem 'Gus the Theatre Cat' by T. S. Eliot in his book 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.' Gus, who's real name is Asparagus, is also a principal character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's award-winning stage musical 'Cats.' In the original West End production, the character was portrayed by Peerapat Yensudchai. When the show transfered to Broadway, the character was portrayed by Stephen Hanan, who won a Tony Award for the role. In the filmed 1998 version, he was portrayed by John Mills.

-- AndrewJKD  4/8/2008

It's a tad old-fashioned, but not in a bad way. The name is short and simple, and not too boyish either. It's not the greatest name out there, but it's not bad either. It makes me think about Gus Gus (or gusgus), which is a rather ambiguous association to me, as the band was cool in the 90s but has been crap ever since.

-- slight night shiver  4/23/2008

Comments for GUS (2):

The Greek form of this name is Kostas or Costas if you prefer it that way. The form Gus is used only in English.

-- Anonymous User  1/26/2005

This nickname is used because of the similarity in sound to Kostas, a Greek short form of Konstantinos or Constantine. (The "k" (or kappa in the Greek alphabet), would be "unaspirated," that is, without the puff of breath following an initial k or c in English (the k of "kin" or the c of "cot" as opposed to those of "skin" or "Scot," respectively), and thus sound something like a hard "g.")

-- Kosta  2/22/2006

I don't like these "diaspora" names. Most of them are ugly and stupid. This one is just one example. Constantine is pretentious in English, so why use it? At least I don't see anyone using it anymore, which is a good thing.

-- bananarama  10/9/2009

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