Dusti
Dusti was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,311 among girls’ names; 1,824 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Dusti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 32 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dusti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dusti?
#10,311 among girls’ names, 2025
Dusti fell from #9,662 in 2015 to #10,311 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.6 per million.
94 babies in 1980, the peak
Dusti peaked in 1980, when 94 girls were given it, #1,343 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,311 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,794 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,958 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,390 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,487 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,931 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,283 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,095 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,832 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,662 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,095 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,136 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,891 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,601 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,500 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,139 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,864 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,712 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,586 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,913 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,867 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,308 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,954 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,237 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,190 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,267 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,948 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,646 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,043 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,232 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,990 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,305 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,992 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,044 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,915 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,055 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,419 | 25.3 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,336 | 25.9 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,273 | 26.2 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,911 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,842 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,935 | 31.7 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,537 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,437 | 51.0 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,343 | 56.6 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,648 | 42.4 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,693 | 40.5 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,385 | 52.8 |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,426 | 50.5 |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,644 | 40.5 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,225 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,276 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,790 | 31.6 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,260 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,913 | 25.7 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,862 | 13.0 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,208 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,624 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,794 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,998 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dusti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dusti has been given almost only to girls: 9 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dusti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dusti, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,824 Americans ever recorded as Dusti. The median Dusti alive today is 42 years old; half are between 32 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,579 people named Dusti (1,490 women and girls, 89 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 647 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 736 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 263 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 103 |
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).
Where are babies named Dusti born?
The states with the most babies named Dusti are Texas, California and Indiana, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 209 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 66 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 23 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oregon | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Dusti is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dusti is most over-represented in Texas: since 1963 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dusti with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,840 babies since 1880, Dusti is the most given (64% of them).
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 Dusti
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 Dusti and names like it
- Compare Dusti and DustieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDusti peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dusti since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Dusti.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dusti alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.