Dustin
Dustin was given to 365 boys in 2025, #729 among boys’ names; 209,721 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 198,000 Americans named Dustin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 32 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dustin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dustin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dustin is “a male given name from the Germanic languages (very rarely also given to women).” Its etymology gives the sense “Thor's stone” (Þorsteinn).
Probably from Old Norse Þorsteinn (“Thor’s stone”).
/ˈdʌstɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dustin?
#729 among boys’ names, 2025
Dustin fell from #503 in 2015 to #729 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.30 to 0.21 per 1,000.
10,520 babies in 1985, the peak
Dustin peaked in 1985, when 10,520 babies were given it (10,439 boys, #41 among boys’ names). The 365 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 365 | #729 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 395 | #689 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 382 | #695 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 442 | #631 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 444 | #622 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 404 | #653 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 491 | #568 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 543 | #523 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 535 | #529 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 554 | #531 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 577 | #503 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 697 | #435 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 674 | #431 | 0.36 |
| 2012 | 800 | #377 | 0.42 |
| 2011 | 804 | #370 | 0.42 |
| 2010 | 869 | #353 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 1,008 | #316 | 0.51 |
| 2008 | 1,103 | #301 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 1,263 | #272 | 0.61 |
| 2006 | 1,338 | #258 | 0.65 |
| 2005 | 1,477 | #232 | 0.74 |
| 2004 | 1,554 | #223 | 0.78 |
| 2003 | 1,769 | #207 | 0.90 |
| 2002 | 1,982 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 2,424 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 2,621 | #148 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 2,844 | #133 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 3,445 | #108 | 1.8 |
| 1997 | 4,277 | #88 | 2.3 |
| 1996 | 4,874 | #79 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5,921 | #62 | 3.1 |
| 1994 | 6,459 | #56 | 3.3 |
| 1993 | 6,310 | #59 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 6,798 | #58 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 7,383 | #56 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8,457 | #50 | 4.1 |
| 1989 | 9,715 | #48 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9,337 | #48 | 4.9 |
| 1987 | 10,108 | #44 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 10,317 | #42 | 5.6 |
| 1985 | 10,439 | #41 | 5.6 |
| 1984 | 10,403 | #41 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 9,678 | #43 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 9,551 | #42 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 9,350 | #42 | 5.2 |
| 1980 | 8,416 | #44 | 4.7 |
| 1979 | 4,899 | #62 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 4,177 | #68 | 2.5 |
| 1977 | 3,477 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 1976 | 3,212 | #82 | 2.0 |
| 1975 | 2,677 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 1974 | 2,197 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 1973 | 1,616 | #153 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 1,561 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 1,471 | #181 | 0.83 |
| 1970 | 1,285 | #202 | 0.69 |
| 1969 | 758 | #271 | 0.42 |
| 1968 | 448 | #369 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,023 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,036 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,024 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,221 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,181 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,048 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,160 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,059 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,251 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,858 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,398 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 27 | #1,514 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,153 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,363 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,646 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,466 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,531 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,624 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,307 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,573 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,323 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,389 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,304 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,759 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,953 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,924 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,370 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,933 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,985 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,285 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,743 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,308 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,082 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dustin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dustin has been given almost only to boys: 1,380 girls in 99 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dustin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dustin, and how old are they?
198,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 209,721 Americans ever recorded as Dustin. The median Dustin alive today is 39 years old; half are between 32 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 171,388 people named Dustin (615 women and girls, 170,773 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 199,081 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 428 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 129,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 29,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,450 |
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 Dustin born?
The states with the most babies named Dustin are Texas, California and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16,719 | #781 | 1.0× |
| California | 16,221 | #832 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11,965 | #561 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 8,220 | #794 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 7,561 | #686 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 7,376 | #579 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 7,282 | #670 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 7,227 | #686 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 6,957 | #676 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 6,641 | #957 | 1.2× |
Where Dustin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dustin is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1916 it was given 2.1 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 boys’ 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 Dustin 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 216,688 babies since 1880, Dustin is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 365 of their 385 babies (95%), again the most given.
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 Dustin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jamaal | 8,587 |
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 Dustin and names like it
- Compare Dustin and DustynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDustin peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dustin since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Dustin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Dustin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dustin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.