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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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First appearance
1927
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.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 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)
Rise & fade · boys
54 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1981 at #316 (602 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 45 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1953–1997
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,975
- 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%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
- 37.5% of all boys named Dusty (3,994) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1980
- 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.
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