Names / Boy names
Dustin
Current rank
#729
and easing
All-time peak
#41
in 1985
First recorded
1916
in U.S. data
Children named
209,700
since 1916
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #41 in 1985 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
(DUS-tin): brave warrior or Thor’s stone in some interpretations. Very familiar to millennials, less common on babies now. Stateside, it first appears in 1916. Its strongest year was 1985, at #41 nationally. It currently ranks #729 and is slowly cooling. More than 209,700 children have been given the name overall.