Meaning not yet researched.
Dustin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 365 in 2025. Its best rank was #41 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #41 in 1985; #729 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dustin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#729 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #41.
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Dustin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 365 boys in 2025. Peak: #41 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 10,439 (1985).
In 2025, 365 US boys were named Dustin, making it the 729th most common boys’ name of the year, down 40 places from #689 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 395 boys named Dustin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #41, reached in 1985. That year also had the most boys given the name: 10,439. For comparison, it was #503 in 2015 and #1,625 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dustin in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 209,721 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 98,153 babies named Dustin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,555 US boys were named Dustin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 554. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,680 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dustin ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #245 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dustyn (2,733 babies since 1880), Dustan (1,695 babies since 1880), Dusten (1,374 babies since 1880) and Duston (1,165 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dustine, Dustun and Dustion are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dusty.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Dustine (242), Dustun (15), Dustion (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #245 | — |
| West Virginia | 6 | #312 | #342 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #344 | #297 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #412 | #391 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #456 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #532 | #636 |
| Colorado | 10 | #548 | #384 |
| Ohio | 18 | #561 | #365 |
| Illinois | 16 | #579 | #920 |
| Alabama | 8 | #592 | #460 |
| Washington | 11 | #608 | #577 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #624 | #415 |
| Missouri | 8 | #670 | #362 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #676 | #436 |
| Georgia | 14 | #686 | #373 |
| Arizona | 9 | #686 | #443 |
| Florida | 23 | #686 | #497 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #686 | #407 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #699 | #653 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #726 | #354 |
| Texas | 35 | #781 | #614 |
| Indiana | 7 | #794 | #413 |
| California | 29 | #832 | #604 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #840 | #737 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #852 | #733 |
| Michigan | 8 | #856 | #727 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #957 | #362 |
| New York | 12 | #1,009 | #707 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 365 | #729 |
| 2024 | — | — | 395 | #689 |
| 2023 | — | — | 382 | #695 |
| 2022 | — | — | 442 | #631 |
| 2021 | — | — | 444 | #622 |
| 2020 | — | — | 404 | #653 |
| 2019 | — | — | 491 | #568 |
| 2018 | — | — | 543 | #523 |
| 2017 | — | — | 535 | #529 |
| 2016 | — | — | 554 | #531 |
| 2015 | — | — | 577 | #503 |
| 2014 | — | — | 697 | #435 |
| 2013 | — | — | 674 | #431 |
| 2012 | — | — | 800 | #377 |
| 2011 | — | — | 804 | #370 |
| 2010 | — | — | 869 | #353 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,794 | 1,008 | #316 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,103 | #301 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,263 | #272 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,338 | #258 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,398 | 1,477 | #232 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,873 | 1,554 | #223 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,485 | 1,769 | #207 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,169 | 1,982 | #189 |
| 2001 | — | — | 2,424 | #158 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,025 | 2,621 | #148 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,634 | 2,844 | #133 |
| 1998 | — | — | 3,445 | #108 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,921 | 4,277 | #88 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,778 | 4,874 | #79 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,754 | 5,921 | #62 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,077 | 6,459 | #56 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,049 | 6,310 | #59 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,579 | 6,798 | #58 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,240 | 7,383 | #56 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,455 | 8,457 | #50 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,489 | 9,715 | #48 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,554 | 9,337 | #48 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,594 | 10,108 | #44 |
| 1986 | 110 | #1,243 | 10,317 | #42 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,507 | 10,439 | #41 |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,356 | 10,403 | #41 |
| 1983 | 95 | #1,285 | 9,678 | #43 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,493 | 9,551 | #42 |
| 1981 | 102 | #1,264 | 9,350 | #42 |
| 1980 | 74 | #1,573 | 8,416 | #44 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,860 | 4,899 | #62 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,486 | 4,177 | #68 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,384 | 3,477 | #81 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,498 | 3,212 | #82 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,829 | 2,677 | #96 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,592 | 2,197 | #121 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,520 | 1,616 | #153 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,092 | 1,561 | #165 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,083 | 1,471 | #181 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,466 | 1,285 | #202 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,665 | 758 | #271 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,359 | 448 | #369 |
| 1967 | — | — | 51 | #1,023 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,036 |
| 1965 | — | — | 52 | #1,024 |
| 1964 | — | — | 40 | #1,222 |
| 1963 | — | — | 43 | #1,182 |
| 1962 | — | — | 53 | #1,049 |
| 1961 | — | — | 46 | #1,161 |
| 1960 | — | — | 53 | #1,060 |
| 1959 | — | — | 39 | #1,252 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,859 |
| 1957 | — | — | 32 | #1,399 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,515 |
| 1955 | — | — | 42 | #1,154 |
| 1954 | — | — | 31 | #1,364 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,647 |
| 1952 | — | — | 27 | #1,467 |
| 1951 | — | — | 24 | #1,532 |
| 1950 | — | — | 21 | #1,625 |
| 1949 | — | — | 31 | #1,308 |
| 1948 | — | — | 22 | #1,574 |
| 1947 | — | — | 31 | #1,324 |
| 1946 | — | — | 26 | #1,390 |
| 1945 | — | — | 26 | #1,305 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,760 |
| 1943 | — | — | 12 | #2,208 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,296 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,954 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,924 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,370 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,038 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,549 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,835 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,084 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,936 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,676 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,987 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,286 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,848 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,744 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,309 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,084 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).