Masculine dossier · first seen 1927

Dusty

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Dusty
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 95.7% from peak

Peak era

1981

Peak rank proxy

601

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1927Peak 19812024

Peak year

1981

Decline from peak

95.7%

2024

All-time

10,628

Dusty once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1981, when 601 boys were named Dusty.

In 2024, only 26 boys were given the name.

Down 95.7% from its peak.

All told, about 10,628 Americans have been named Dusty and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1927.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 95.7% from peak

1981601 boys named Dusty

202426 boys named Dusty

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