Meaning not yet researched.
Rustin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #951 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #951 in 1979; #2,280 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rustin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,280 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #951.
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Rustin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #951 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 87 (1979).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Rustin, making it the 2,280th most common boys’ name of the year, up 159 places from #2,439 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 57 boys named Rustin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #951, reached in 1979. That year also had the most boys given the name: 87. For comparison, it was #2,426 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rustin in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 2,903 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 655 babies named Rustin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 505 US boys were named Rustin; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rustin ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,045 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ruston, Rustyn and Roston are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ruston (962), Rustyn (449), Roston (92), Rusten (54), Rustan (11), Rostin (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.
No nicknames listed for Rustin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,045 | #1,432 |
| California | 5 | #2,744 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 62 | #2,280 |
| 2024 | — | — | 57 | #2,439 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,884 |
| 2022 | — | — | 50 | #2,671 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,852 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,540 |
| 2019 | — | — | 52 | #2,549 |
| 2018 | — | — | 55 | #2,410 |
| 2017 | — | — | 43 | #2,834 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,654 |
| 2015 | — | — | 53 | #2,426 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,573 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,661 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,514 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,946 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,211 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,620 |
| 2008 | — | — | 36 | #3,208 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,433 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,207 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,036 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,833 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,178 |
| 2002 | — | — | 32 | #2,931 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,306 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,210 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,546 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,493 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,889 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #3,006 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,982 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,297 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,250 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,879 |
| 1991 | — | — | 49 | #1,694 |
| 1990 | — | — | 61 | #1,450 |
| 1989 | — | — | 53 | #1,544 |
| 1988 | — | — | 61 | #1,327 |
| 1987 | — | — | 60 | #1,268 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,215 |
| 1985 | — | — | 53 | #1,328 |
| 1984 | — | — | 60 | #1,187 |
| 1983 | — | — | 71 | #1,058 |
| 1982 | — | — | 77 | #1,038 |
| 1981 | — | — | 72 | #1,076 |
| 1980 | — | — | 85 | #980 |
| 1979 | — | — | 87 | #951 |
| 1978 | — | — | 66 | #1,075 |
| 1977 | — | — | 56 | #1,185 |
| 1976 | — | — | 60 | #1,094 |
| 1975 | — | — | 59 | #1,097 |
| 1974 | — | — | 63 | #1,043 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,370 |
| 1972 | — | — | 38 | #1,386 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,436 |
| 1970 | — | — | 38 | #1,368 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,599 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,609 |
| 1967 | — | — | 17 | #1,963 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #2,029 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,351 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,525 |
| 1963 | — | — | 15 | #2,189 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #2,025 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,058 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,519 |
| 1959 | — | — | 40 | #1,244 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,236 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,923 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,935 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,821 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,684 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,162 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,124 |
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).