Dusty
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births
Given to boys 70.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 602 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,662since 1927
Dusty over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #3,513 | 32 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #3,059 | 38 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #2,565 | 48 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #2,805 | 42 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #2,336 | 54 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #1,873 | 77 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #2,039 | 68 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | #1,795 | 81 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #1,684 | 84 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | #1,402 | 106 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #1,467 | 93 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #1,420 | 93 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | #1,305 | 102 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 | #1,287 | 102 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 | #1,165 | 118 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | #1,049 | 131 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 | #1,050 | 128 |
| 1997 | #2,695 | 46 | #818 | 178 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | #762 | 194 |
| 1995 | #2,216 | 60 | #713 | 223 |
| 1994 | #2,079 | 66 | #645 | 259 |
| 1993 | #2,351 | 54 | #714 | 209 |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | #883 | 143 |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 | #787 | 170 |
| 1990 | #2,289 | 55 | #642 | 249 |
| 1989 | #2,096 | 59 | #632 | 249 |
| 1988 | #1,579 | 83 | #488 | 355 |
| 1987 | #1,349 | 101 | #443 | 405 |
| 1986 | #1,736 | 67 | #446 | 378 |
| 1985 | #1,373 | 94 | #457 | 352 |
| 1984 | #1,343 | 90 | #463 | 332 |
| 1983 | #1,071 | 129 | #480 | 309 |
| 1982 | #1,193 | 114 | #353 | 517 |
| 1981 | #720 | 229 | #316 | 602 |
| 1980 | #631 | 289 | #359 | 495 |
| 1979 | #813 | 194 | #614 | 193 |
| 1978 | #736 | 212 | #555 | 226 |
| 1977 | #661 | 241 | #609 | 189 |
| 1976 | #583 | 281 | #612 | 178 |
| 1975 | #717 | 206 | #675 | 148 |
| 1974 | #929 | 134 | #625 | 165 |
| 1973 | #870 | 148 | #688 | 135 |
| 1972 | #885 | 143 | #688 | 135 |
| 1971 | #1,084 | 111 | #748 | 119 |
| 1970 | #1,133 | 103 | #707 | 138 |
| 1969 | #1,355 | 71 | #736 | 113 |
| 1968 | #1,940 | 38 | #861 | 71 |
| 1967 | #1,821 | 41 | #955 | 57 |
| 1966 | #2,357 | 26 | #932 | 61 |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 | #837 | 77 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 | #906 | 70 |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | #929 | 65 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 | #902 | 71 |
| 1961 | #2,957 | 18 | #890 | 74 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | #804 | 90 |
| 1959 | #2,760 | 18 | #794 | 93 |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 | #796 | 88 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | #795 | 89 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 | #783 | 90 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | #829 | 78 |
| 1954 | #1,769 | 34 | #754 | 89 |
| 1953 | #2,363 | 20 | #999 | 52 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | #1,066 | 46 |
| 1951 | #2,474 | 17 | #1,123 | 41 |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | #1,105 | 41 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | #1,185 | 36 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | #1,400 | 27 |
| 1947 | #2,448 | 17 | #1,599 | 22 |
| 1946 | #2,228 | 18 | #1,557 | 21 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | #2,633 | 8 |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dusty! It came in at #4,210, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dusty is popular in 1962
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#316 · 1 in 2,944
- Texas#649 · 1 in 9,944
- California#769 · 1 in 20,781
Best ever in a state: #93 in Wyoming, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #316 | 8 | 1 in 2,944 |
| Texas | #649 | 12 | 1 in 9,944 |
| California | #769 | 9 | 1 in 20,781 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dusty
- 559 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #3,513)
- 488 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #3,513)
- 948 spots since 2015 (#2,565 → #3,513)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1980 (#614 → #359)
- Biggest drop: 232 spots in 1998 (#818 → #1,050)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1981 at #316 (602 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1953–1997
- Highest: 1 in 2,975 boys born in 1981 were named Dusty (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.5% of all boys named Dusty (3,994) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1979, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #3,559 (1929) | #3,885 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,645 (1935) | #3,645 |
| 1940s | 130 | #1,185 (1949) | #2,292 |
| 1950s | 707 | #754 (1954) | #904 |
| 1960s | 749 | #736 (1969) | #875 |
| 1970s | 1,626 | #555 (1978) | #652 |
| 1980s | 3,994 | #316 (1981) | #444 |
| 1990s | 1,884 | #642 (1990) | #806 |
| 2000s | 924 | #1,165 (2000) | #1,544 |
| 2010s | 426 | #2,187 (2010) | #2,877 |
| 2020s | 206 | #2,830 (2022) | #3,406 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dusty in 1962
Top girls' names in 1962
Top boys' names in 1962
More about 1962
girls
1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 140,472 of them was named Dusty, which outranked 54.7% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,293Victory15
- #3,293Viveca15
- #3,293Willene15
- #3,438Dusty14
- #3,438Adrain14
- #3,438Alonda14
- #3,438Angelo14
- #3,592Alanda13
- #3,592Aleida13
- #3,592Alex13
Tied with 153 names at #3,438; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,068,772 boys got a published name in 1962; 1 in 29,138 of them was named Dusty, which outranked 80.5% of the 4,631 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).