Meaning not yet researched.
Rusty: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #328 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #328 in 1961; #2,384 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rusty in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,384 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #328.
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Rusty: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #328 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 576 (1961).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Rusty, making it the 2,384th most common boys’ name of the year, up 998 places from #3,382 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 35 boys named Rusty in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #328, reached in 1961. That year also had the most boys given the name: 576. For comparison, it was #2,674 in 2015 and #694 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rusty in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 8 babies. In all, 18,367 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 4,338 babies named Rusty.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 362 US boys were named Rusty; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rusty ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,044 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Rusti and Rustie 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: Rusti (350), Rustie (44).
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 Rusty in the open dataset we use.
Rusty is listed as a nickname for Russell.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,044 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,414 | #1,740 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 58 | #2,384 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,965 | 35 | #3,382 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,215 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,451 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,907 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,900 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,976 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,869 |
| 2017 | — | — | 32 | #3,505 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,978 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,674 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,797 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,175 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,052 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,786 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,720 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,535 |
| 2008 | — | — | 43 | #2,819 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,409 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,816 |
| 2005 | — | — | 78 | #1,722 |
| 2004 | — | — | 65 | #1,905 |
| 2003 | — | — | 76 | #1,654 |
| 2002 | — | — | 67 | #1,739 |
| 2001 | — | — | 70 | #1,676 |
| 2000 | — | — | 73 | #1,625 |
| 1999 | — | — | 83 | #1,416 |
| 1998 | — | — | 86 | #1,367 |
| 1997 | — | — | 101 | #1,188 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,111 | 117 | #1,047 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,505 | 127 | #986 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,230 | 157 | #857 |
| 1993 | — | — | 150 | #869 |
| 1992 | — | — | 165 | #818 |
| 1991 | — | — | 213 | #695 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,952 | 273 | #608 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,587 | 298 | #562 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,225 | 342 | #494 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,862 | 342 | #480 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,071 | 336 | #474 |
| 1985 | — | — | 327 | #479 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,188 | 338 | #457 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,758 | 362 | #433 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,978 | 420 | #404 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,133 | 498 | #355 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,108 | 505 | #355 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,975 | 520 | #347 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,886 | 341 | #432 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,725 | 342 | #428 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,847 | 377 | #400 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,233 | 365 | #403 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,399 | 312 | #450 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,954 | 327 | #431 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,255 | 324 | #440 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,048 | 355 | #432 |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,006 | 384 | #416 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,133 | 340 | #430 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,955 | 328 | #427 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,348 | 309 | #432 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,238 | 331 | #416 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,206 | 411 | #382 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,927 | 419 | #388 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,302 | 498 | #350 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,432 | 516 | #345 |
| 1961 | — | — | 576 | #328 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,605 | 514 | #343 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,570 | 558 | #329 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,515 | 509 | #339 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,484 | 443 | #362 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,298 | 434 | #354 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,539 | 323 | #409 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,057 | 208 | #502 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,185 | 147 | #597 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,745 | 121 | #639 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,257 | 115 | #657 |
| 1950 | — | — | 98 | #694 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,914 | 90 | #727 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,156 | 73 | #798 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,039 | 72 | #820 |
| 1946 | — | — | 79 | #745 |
| 1945 | — | — | 39 | #1,033 |
| 1944 | — | — | 43 | #1,001 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,626 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,789 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,185 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,066 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,176 | 7 | #3,068 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,476 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,648 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,796 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,859 | 5 | #4,128 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,940 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,404 |
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).