Dusten
Dusten was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,374 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Dusten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dusten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dusten mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dusten is “a male given name.”
Variant of Dustin.
/ˈdʌstən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dusten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,294, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1985, the peak
Dusten peaked in 1985, when 66 boys were given it, #1,149 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,294 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,967 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,965 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,098 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,936 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,079 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,248 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,785 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,213 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,215 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #5,725 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,391 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,685 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,068 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,914 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,966 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,767 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,096 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,884 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,510 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,559 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,306 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,106 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,314 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,619 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,925 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,555 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 57 | #1,500 | 27.8 |
| 1989 | 60 | #1,411 | 30.0 |
| 1988 | 59 | #1,341 | 30.8 |
| 1987 | 48 | #1,487 | 25.7 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,204 | 34.2 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,149 | 35.7 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,267 | 29.4 |
| 1983 | 49 | #1,331 | 27.3 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,155 | 34.7 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,460 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,600 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,641 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,699 | 19.5 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,961 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,621 | 21.0 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,310 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,582 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,430 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,108 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,444 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,774 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,129 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dusten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dusten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dusten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dusten, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,374 Americans ever recorded as Dusten. The median Dusten alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,092 people named Dusten (13 women and girls, 1,079 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,317 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 226 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 779 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 265 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 34 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 216,688 babies since 1880, Dusten is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 385 babies recorded by SSA was a Dusten (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dusten
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dusten and names like it
- Compare Dusten and DustinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDusten peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dusten since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Dusten.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dusten alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.