Dusty — #4082 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dusty

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,628 babies named Dusty between 1927 and 2024, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dusty currently holds the #4082 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 601 babies received it in a single year. Dusty is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,460 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dusty performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 3,993 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Dusty shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,603 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Dusty in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dusty in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,628 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.