The name Dustin is of Old Norse origin, and is a variation of Torsten.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Dustin has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dustin
Use of the Name Dustin for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
191,997
191,997
164,241
31,598
10,275
3,275
1,525
The table below indicates the number of times the name Dustin has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Dustin first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1968, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dustin
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1968
368
449
1969
271
755
1970
202
1,283
1971
181
1,466
1972
165
1,561
1973
153
1,613
1974
121
2,197
1975
95
2,677
1976
82
3,210
1977
81
3,475
1978
68
4,174
1979
62
4,896
1980
44
8,406
1981
42
9,343
1982
42
9,540
1983
43
9,675
1984
41
10,388
1985
41
10,434
1986
42
10,310
1987
44
10,100
1988
48
9,326
1989
48
9,721
1990
50
8,455
1991
56
7,393
1992
58
6,793
1993
59
6,303
1994
56
6,456
1995
62
5,913
1996
79
4,868
1997
88
4,272
1998
108
3,431
1999
133
2,839
2000
148
2,615
2001
158
2,416
2002
189
1,969
2003
208
1,750
2004
223
1,525
Totals:
191,997
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Dustin as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Dustin appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 37 times during the last 125 years.