Rustin

#2,258 for boys in 2025, 62 births

Peak · boys
1979 · 87 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,903
since 1949

Rustin over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Rustin has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201986peak #945, 1979boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,25862
2024#2,41857
2023#2,84844
2022#2,64850
2021#2,81944
2020#2,50551
2019#2,52552
2018#2,38555
2017#2,79843
2016#2,62647
2015#2,41253
2014#2,54248
2013#2,62345
2012#3,45031
2011#2,90440
2010#4,09924
2009#3,55130
2008#3,16536
2007#3,37932
2006#3,15334
2005#3,94123
2004#3,73524
2003#3,11930
2002#2,88232
2001#3,22827
2000#3,15027
1999#2,51035
1998#2,45035
1997#2,82327
1996#2,91125
1995#1,95543
1994#2,25935
1993#2,20935
1992#1,84444
1991#1,67749
1990#1,43561
1989#1,53753
1988#1,31961
1987#1,25960
1986#1,19963
1985#1,32153
1984#1,17460
1983#1,04971
1982#1,03177
1981#1,07372
1980#97485
1979#94587
1978#1,06666
1977#1,17756
1976#1,08460
1975#1,09459
1974#1,03563
1973#1,35438
1972#1,36438
1971#1,41536
1970#1,35138
1969#1,57027
1968#1,57425
1967#1,90617
1966#1,96316
1965#2,27013
1964#2,40912
1963#2,11515
1962#1,96217
1961#1,99717
1960#1,48629
1959#1,22840
1958#3,0338
1957#3,5526
1956#2,7989
1955#3,5056
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five boys were named Rustin! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Rustin
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 160 spots since 2024 (#2,418#2,258)
  • 247 spots since 2020 (#2,505#2,258)
  • 154 spots since 2015 (#2,412#2,258)
  • Biggest jump: 121 spots in 1979 (#1,066#945)
  • Biggest drop: 99 spots in 1981 (#974#1,073)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 1979 at #945 (87 births)
  • Births halved by 1993, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1979–1980
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,788
  • Highest: 1 in 19,788 boys born in 1979 were named Rustin (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 27,550 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 22.6% of all boys named Rustin (655) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#3,690 (1949)#3,690
1950s84#1,228 (1959)#2,909
1960s188#1,486 (1960)#1,925
1970s541#945 (1979)#1,189
1980s655#974 (1980)#1,194
1990s389#1,435 (1990)#2,207
2000s295#2,882 (2002)#3,330
2010s438#2,385 (2018)#2,836
2020s308#2,258 (2025)#2,583

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.

Rustin in 1986

boys
#1,199
63 births · 1 in 29,230 boys

Top boys' names in 1986

  1. #1Michael64,235
  2. #2Christopher56,693
  3. #3Matthew46,929
  4. #4Joshua37,542
  5. #5David37,150
  6. #6Daniel36,573
  7. #7James34,057
  8. #8Andrew33,858
  9. #9Robert31,350
  10. #10John30,209
  11. #1,199Rustin63
More about 1986

boys

1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 29,230 of them was named Rustin, which outranked 84.7% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rustin
  1. #1,188Randon64
  2. #1,188Shay64
  3. #1,188Tiffany64
  4. #1,199Rustin63
  5. #1,199Alexandre63
  6. #1,199Antwaun63
  7. #1,199Bradlee63
  8. #1,217Benedict62
  9. #1,217Bjorn62
  10. #1,217Bob62

Tied with 17 names at #1,199; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1985
Risers
  1. 1,279Spenser#2,226#947
  2. 920Jayce#1,614#694
  3. 714Addison#1,228#514
  4. 649Payton#1,614#965
  5. 573Cordell#1,181#608
Fallers
  1. 409Ulises#877#1,286
  2. 365Eliot#934#1,299
  3. 322Jordy#998#1,320
  4. 313Trace#956#1,269
  5. 292Kennith#963#1,255

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1986