Rusty
Rusty is a boy's name that peaked in 1961, when it was the 328th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,363rd. About 16,000 Rustys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rusty boys named Rusty
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,367
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 328th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,363rd
- First recorded
- 1927
- Girls / boys
- 565 / 17,802
How old the living Rustys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,367 babies given the name since 1927, about 16,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 690 of them are children and 2,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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.
Notable Rustys
- Rusty Schweickart (born 1935)American astronaut
- Rusty Wallace (born 1956)American racing driver
- Rusty Wailes (1936–2002)American rower
- Rusty Joiner (born 1972)American model
- Rusty Smith (born 1979)American short track speed skater
- Rusty Anderson (born 1957)American guitarist
- Rusty Schwimmer (born 1962)American actress
- Rusty LaRue (born 1973)American basketball player-coach
People named Rusty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rusty is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rusty is most concentrated in Oklahoma (3.2×), Louisiana (2.6×), Kansas (2.3×), Arkansas (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular boys’ names the year Rusty peaked:
Rusty elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rusty | 28 | 3,684th |
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.
Related names
Rusty against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.