Duston
Duston was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 1,165 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Duston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 33 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Duston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Duston?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,094, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1986, the peak
Duston peaked in 1986, when 61 boys were given it, #1,230 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #11,094 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,581 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,789 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,805 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,146 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,459 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,054 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,931 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,394 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,897 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #11,371 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,669 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,135 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,249 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,591 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,468 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,918 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,950 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,409 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,456 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,521 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,261 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,485 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,813 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,493 | 27.5 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,592 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 45 | #1,571 | 24.1 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,230 | 33.1 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,510 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,268 | 29.4 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,254 | 30.1 |
| 1982 | 49 | #1,345 | 27.0 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,668 | 19.5 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,275 | 29.7 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,578 | 21.5 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,442 | 25.6 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,581 | 21.3 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,720 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,470 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,583 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,595 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,711 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,716 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,147 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,393 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,217 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,412 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,223 | 2.4 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,449 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Duston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Duston 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 Duston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Duston, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,165 Americans ever recorded as Duston. The median Duston alive today is 40 years old; half are between 33 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,024 people named Duston (10 women and girls, 1,014 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 282 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 627 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 155 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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, Duston is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 385 babies recorded by SSA was a Duston (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 Duston
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 Duston and names like it
- Compare Duston and DustinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDuston peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Duston since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Duston.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Duston alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.