Dustin
Dustin is ranked 685th among boys in 2024 (394 births). Its best rank was 41st, in 1984–1985.
- Rank in 2024
- #685up 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3940.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 198510,439 births
- Best rank
- #41first in 1984
- Since 1916
- 209,352people given the name
The story in the numbers
207,972 boys have been named Dustin in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 10,439 births — 0.56% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 394 births in 2024, against 10,439 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 47%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,380 girls have also been given it, 0.66% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dustin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 28 | |
| 1920s | 53 | |
| 1930s | 17 | |
| 1940s | 196 | |
| 1950s | 284 | |
| 1960s | 1,594 | |
| 1970s | 26,573 | |
| 1980s | 97,315 | |
| 1990s | 56,768 | |
| 2000s | 16,539 | |
| 2010s | 6,541 | |
| 2020s | 2,064 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Dustin was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1985 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Dustin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dustenpeak 1985
- Jerridpeak 1988
- Jaradpeak 1983
- Jeradpeak 1983
- Tuanpeak 1982
- Jeredpeak 1982
- Dustonpeak 1986
- Thanhpeak 1982
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.