Dustin
About 209,721 American babies have been named Dustin since 1916, most of them around 1985. In 2025 it ranked 728th. About 199,000 Dustins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dustin boys named Dustin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 209,721
- Estimated living today
- 199,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1985
- Best rank
- 41st
- Rank in 2025
- 728th
- First recorded
- 1916
- Girls / boys
- 1,380 / 208,341
How old the living Dustins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 209,721 babies given the name since 1916, about 199,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 330 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Probably from Old Norse Þorsteinn (“Thor's stone”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dustins
- Dustin Hoffman (born 1937)American actor
- Dustin Moskovitz (born 1984)American computer/Internet entrepreneur
- Dustin Rhodes (born 1969)American professional wrestler
- Dustin Poirier (born 1989)American mixed martial artist
- Dustin Lance Black (born 1974)American screenwriter, director and producer
- Dustin Milligan (born 1985)Canadian actor
- Dustin Clare (born 1982)Australian actor
- Dustin Nguyen (born 1962)Vietnamese-American actor and filmmaker
People named Dustin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dustin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dustin is most concentrated in Wyoming (2.7×), Idaho (2.3×), Montana (2.1×), Alaska (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1985
The most popular boys’ names the year Dustin peaked:
Dustin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Dustin | 180 | 1,085th |
| France boys | Dustin | 120 | 1,469th |
| Switzerland boys | Dustin | 110 | 491st |
| Poland boys | Dustin | 60 birth registrations | 264th |
| Belgium boys | Dustin | 16 | 1,068th |
| Scotland boys | Dustin | 7 | 614th |
| Ireland boys | Dustin | 3 | 322nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dustin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Dustin | 101 | 0.008% | 343rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Dustin | 3 | 0.001% | 618th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Dustin | 6 | 0.009% | 195th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Dustin: rank by region
In 2004, Dustin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dustin | 778 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dustin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Dustin | 6 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Dustin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.