Rustyn
Rustyn was given to 148 boys in 2025, #1,314 among boys’ names; 449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rustyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rustyn?
#1,314 among boys’ names, 2025
Rustyn rose from #5,939 in 2015 to #1,314 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 86.6 per million.
153 babies in 2025, the peak
Rustyn peaked in 2025, when 153 babies were given it (148 boys, #1,314 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 72 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 148 | #1,314 | 86.6 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,091 | 41.8 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,210 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,818 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,973 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,551 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,341 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,495 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,521 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,994 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,939 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,556 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,680 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,535 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,976 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,655 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,744 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,796 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,538 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,189 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,390 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,140 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,949 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,271 | 2.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,075 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rustyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 449 Americans recorded as Rustyn, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 148 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rustyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rustyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 445 Americans named Rustyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 2 years old and half are between 1 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 232 people named Rustyn (29 women and girls, 203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Rustyn?
Rustyn is a less common spelling of Rustin: SSA has recorded 449 Rustyn and 2,903 Rustin since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,368 babies since 1880, Rustyn is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 279 babies (55%), the most given that year.
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 Rustyn
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 Rustyn and names like it
- Compare Rustyn and RustinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rustyn.
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