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.
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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 183,711 of them was named Dusty, which outranked 47.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,975Zyann11
- #9,975Zyara11
- #9,975Zykerria11
- #10,679Dusty10
- #10,679Aalaya10
- #10,679Aaliyan10
- #10,679Aaria10
- #11,459Aaira9
- #11,459Aamirah9
- #11,459Aarionna9
Tied with 779 names at #10,679; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 25,761 of them was named Dusty, which outranked 87.1% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,861Mattias78
- #1,861Neo78
- #1,861Reggie78
- #1,873Dusty77
- #1,873Amin77
- #1,873Briley77
- #1,873Dajuan77
- #1,889Aadi76
- #1,889Aadyn76
- #1,889Aaiden76
Tied with 15 names at #1,873; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.